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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will: d# |5 L" b! Q$ l& t0 X
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 English5 C. Y4 j* k5 [4 m
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
; @( n1 {0 O9 A, ]9 y, f! B+ z$ W+ wplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".6 _% S9 r! f1 l3 h" y0 I. a N
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 m/ f( f% U: ?0 c6 |6 y
the sivil servants jump with joy.: S7 K. i) ]0 M6 a( e5 {+ o0 M! T3 e# m
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up( V: b4 \ z4 d( t0 |
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.( E+ x3 ?. _$ [" |& U
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. U `* r/ W+ O0 fThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
0 ]" j! ?+ [# R5 U. @. S: y7 itroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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% L% b9 L% H; ~. C" o3 M% vIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to: S, ]2 y; o5 f+ w+ 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
1 u6 v, v. ?7 s" A+ lben a deterent to akurate speling.$ E1 B+ {' P( `- P7 j. Q/ D# x
5 B3 Z' ]+ w& b; I3 S9 LAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
. i* g% u g# n7 J% Xdisgrasful and it should go away.
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$ W- a+ s& M9 N* m7 h5 E2 DBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with. W; ]! ^% i( L
"z" and "w" with "v".) p+ z0 a# R0 N& i
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and% O* @, [5 m0 K9 ?* L" N* ^
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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6 r) F' U% X! i. QZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
5 G, U7 h. A0 a6 j- O& Wunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 K4 T- D: f6 C- w D0 U9 |$ S
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 T o) k* H0 A7 r% `
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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