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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will# v5 |7 j% T7 G) C8 K
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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* Y# U3 z x# V ^2 a/ H, A9 IAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% ^/ e9 x+ K$ \- N
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in K- [& J- f0 i
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".& c9 M& B/ `+ o! _ M( X! d# U* \
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
+ A, J: V( V4 X$ v% Mthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up1 z& Z) s/ ]. g% y: H3 t7 t/ y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 T/ g. G* y/ m* o" |: z! w! J
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& ]1 J) }7 _9 q2 i2 h; Z
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like' B# I1 ^0 p6 {( j/ n
fotograf 20% shorter. X, ^% |/ b# v% H, b
: g4 T9 F( A L" D, L1 Q6 V' RIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 \. S$ J6 s; \, i8 oreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.( c |) w4 w' S- Y \
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" |# E. H4 V3 _1 O. Z7 G; o
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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) W& t( `7 W' w2 u; k2 F/ TAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is$ a. y. Z/ e( e2 b) F
disgrasful and it should go away.: T) e) o6 s/ G5 w7 V m
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with: o- ~/ G9 H7 y
"z" and "w" with "v".
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! W {1 K! `* T; Y. |0 G+ m5 \During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ ]7 I) z8 z! q% ~! [after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.: w; P+ \6 b" ~. \8 q) A% Q
0 g+ X4 I, t }* N7 VZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu1 `8 @* F: e T
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ l# k; M- T5 XUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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9 n+ d7 s; Y) `: p4 m8 AIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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