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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will1 J; v o% I; s4 V7 S
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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: @0 D" n+ u6 s9 c6 O9 V/ r S* V7 mAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English C- p2 o2 }% e- w$ }5 E" _; F4 `
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in9 y3 X f4 K* S: g) A
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make4 K3 D! f5 ?: A7 x7 Y% @8 |
the sivil servants jump with joy.6 P# w' d% u; E' r2 {% R! x
) o3 f0 I. v" p: }The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: d* X% _# d, ?" s( f) Z
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter." _( S/ b# J# D0 k" ^8 \
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
0 S! Y9 c1 ?4 X9 jtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
|' E/ H5 _% ` r) _0 K) ^( jfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
+ b1 J. U9 [+ Q1 z- j: _5 treach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
4 M+ X: Y6 i! Y* Vdisgrasful and it should go away." W* m5 U: ]4 c, l; E, J0 x8 u1 Q- ~
1 Z" J( `2 q: h" j; w- \7 h4 kBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
% s d" v9 H5 ^) b"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and6 j. o" q! A9 c* G5 ^
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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# u4 D3 O4 ]3 ~5 f9 \% g& O- O9 Y5 fZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* d$ d" |* W, W' G
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
) B% [9 ^, E$ x g# zUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze X, i8 J* q$ D' N# K7 u
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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