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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
. p) R" C; D9 L+ I7 | @: sbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was' n) d: Z& |$ d; j
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
+ q" O$ q" v: ?spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in0 L! ~6 e" B0 x' D
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% Y2 D1 j3 L; f) e. i: d! X* l; j
% [3 h+ S5 c! ^, S1 c! J/ HIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make6 H9 m H& Q" m+ p0 f
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
: x: }% Y# j6 l }9 \' kkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.6 e t/ W6 E' Z3 |# i o) Y" k
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ X# {/ [$ k& B1 U7 h9 btroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like: }. `5 d+ h6 A2 G) w- S
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' k- C1 f' m4 P" ~' y1 ureach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always6 d0 Y( S. c- u
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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1 \# i, y# D7 m2 `; m6 bAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is# z1 m( Q O7 W0 x, k# V
disgrasful and it should go away.3 u+ B* v+ x8 A1 ~2 C4 M
- X. z) p3 Q* z% `By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with6 C. s) F7 p0 E
"z" and "w" with "v".
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8 Y* \* h0 S9 N D+ ~, r4 gDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and; l# q6 X4 V: G y- g; f
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.' B" ^+ D* r" P# H4 r/ X* F- S
" Z7 O: e k' ~' j4 v4 ^( {8 hZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu0 F [9 I; L4 u+ r M4 w1 s
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
, o' j& [2 M" A7 o! ]: f6 z2 LUnd 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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