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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 [# f8 T' `5 j
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
9 o" I1 T4 y8 q0 u" ?: [+ Pspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
2 N. J6 e2 {2 I8 v7 I: ]plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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( w; ?% L7 l8 dIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make' s# `( ~/ `4 d q3 R
the sivil servants jump with joy./ f0 c+ @; q" }; ?9 R1 t* v& h
( R4 }( x/ L, i6 q1 NThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up" H- _6 W5 U' \% a' t9 a9 Q$ w
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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& \* g: M E% c6 E( o' ZThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& d7 A$ ?0 ?, x
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like) e, S! q! h4 @8 I( i
fotograf 20% shorter., G9 u3 O: f9 H f# d- r$ F
j- j8 ~7 Y ]: k8 C* `! W1 BIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to! C- o* W' j" P
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- L+ O% E2 ?1 V' u" {& @6 {
) M2 X3 Z9 E/ z. X; Y4 U* H( U6 ^. kGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always2 z0 `, [; @7 G
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
# Z( W A! D9 t! V( Y, `( `. ~disgrasful and it should go away.
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; ~2 z" B3 a+ t9 U5 `+ ~: qBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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9 W9 } |+ P3 MDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and1 e. K8 x i0 c0 u" K* j
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.9 W8 c1 a1 z6 M8 v6 U3 A
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
+ c B `) o& b/ w" q/ [0 K% U! ^understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
5 H' b' g: g5 |# tUnd 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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