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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' Z* T" Z& z, t1 }" l; a3 j
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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/ e1 p% {4 g" D hAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English7 P3 S" H; i* F: z1 a. e8 P+ T
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ X( J7 }6 {, W5 p
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".2 f# N5 H+ ?' [' v& z
7 l% _$ o! C Q' R" M% p: MIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
/ S$ G8 H; W4 C' f0 vthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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7 i0 l. r$ ]0 i1 gThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
9 D7 q N8 [: M* Y" n* bkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.; v0 W. W3 d$ N. K- L
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! t; u8 n0 {3 c9 B. c& s) TThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the) e; ]/ {* U1 |) G" Z! P
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
% a3 u) u( x8 }" u4 e2 pfotograf 20% shorter.
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( e* ^0 d& a4 ~7 N+ l# RIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to% S* y6 s4 w5 C) h% H
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.6 a/ N: j: y# r/ d4 Q" x5 t- m
: c/ K8 M/ |$ LGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
. h7 b# b2 u* oben a deterent to akurate speling.$ V) S. z. _ V/ {7 i/ T$ P
/ N. G( _3 W- \8 u8 q) N5 jAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is+ v3 R( u' V, c5 H
disgrasful and it should go away.$ U4 |) _- Z9 E: d( s
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
" L0 a5 K# {2 B) u" Zafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.0 g# d4 y5 l# K& I9 t
- ]9 Y# G* J- C; ~$ SZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu; G' ^+ `& e' Y" }4 r1 {5 ^* k) `2 [0 U
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.) `$ A- m5 y% c% ~; p3 \
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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