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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
: O+ ?8 T. |; M9 Y. Zbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
- s- U! d1 q, q: P) Uthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English2 {1 M. q5 N) n! ~# g
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 \; O' Y, v' j- |% A
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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1 V8 R' n+ ?# @" c( |3 \/ j3 s# T* `+ EIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
, p0 j) k0 G5 B3 v# zthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up& a, r* ^" |3 I5 j! ^
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
4 l, o- e$ @* k6 _5 |+ btroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 {9 |7 f r8 y( `2 U' gfotograf 20% shorter.% F7 Z; A% C' S- s: o$ L% N4 J/ I5 b
* _3 R! F9 f2 f4 l: a( W0 `In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. K0 Y& K3 r! | Y' ?) T
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.5 R- k/ b! R% o& B6 i7 |
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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- c/ u) F- R7 h- l; e2 Z; ^" `Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is; D) K1 A* c i4 P
disgrasful and it should go away.
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" t4 q) T: L& G, ^% w# I* KBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with: l5 \" v3 `, ^
"z" and "w" with "v".9 G+ R- J: w& _. V- {9 ]
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and- W' \+ K" {- d! U
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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- m) J" G4 G: t# H# n# L- ^Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
o. m7 ~1 a8 \+ T4 p* k6 aunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ U- h" P$ p5 Z/ ]7 s4 U: TUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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% U8 D9 i! L' Z4 yIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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