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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
0 B% ?9 Z8 v+ i# g# f% bbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was4 T" ]% M5 N6 W2 r9 A0 m0 }
the other possibility.+ K/ C5 n1 w7 v3 n! a, m
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
1 d, N8 j( d6 X& V3 e2 s' C, n% ?spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 F: p( j4 t0 `7 p3 b
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 Q) d: H4 S6 F3 s. T
6 G5 m& i! X( B5 |In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make1 J7 ~" m' j+ @
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up. U4 G1 u" G% i" K: n7 Y# B* m6 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
1 k: B) d- D$ @* u: Utroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
5 o4 a) N7 J: `8 Z6 ]& ?8 tfotograf 20% shorter.5 B6 c; n7 e0 y( \4 [2 B: d) O
+ I) f* k% Y) ?' q; U3 A9 @In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to4 G3 ?& A( H4 B% F' Q2 V
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* d9 [9 M- U7 _
ben a deterent to akurate speling.$ j& o" H) c, n( ]/ t" [( _5 i
3 I6 K+ n& X$ ]Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
; x# }- @3 v gdisgrasful and it should go away.; J) R: O: p* B9 ]# s) c) Z
: p/ U/ z4 M5 F! V+ h t0 a% u/ r1 qBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with2 K7 |' p& \/ i
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and1 z" L! x* h+ R
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) {! g* C3 \) N' }# U
) M# _4 U9 B2 M6 [Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu8 D5 L6 r. G% J: z% K; ?
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.9 T8 r/ J E; S+ v. z' x( X
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze* s! e/ ~- R1 d7 X! c- v
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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