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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
4 u) B& V% Y9 G- {3 o- h# Xbe 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( O. Y8 @* G5 v6 d
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
4 ~- r: e# |, X: G: pplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".* N6 I( |9 B! V- L
! ?/ }+ Q& `0 `) Q( _In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make X+ G n! w$ e; U. y
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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/ y R4 Z/ \" H7 _The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; c4 [! F# D& J e
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
4 ^/ f( @$ a; C8 l) w2 ?troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to- f D. J3 w6 m _' q3 J0 H& f
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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6 g! [) t7 u, U5 }Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always' K2 p- h# Y: w* `
ben a deterent to akurate speling.: S7 \0 T6 R$ p& L8 T
( l3 T5 K$ V2 w/ }- SAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
P* X0 }3 \% c6 d e8 S3 K7 i: jdisgrasful and it should go away.) R# }) V9 z/ H6 ~$ |
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with8 i# f9 M: R. A5 r+ g# ~
"z" and "w" with "v".0 N" e) Y+ ?: v" B$ p& A! `& ^4 v
& G% y* k% g" W yDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
& }6 u, L7 ~5 W& Nafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.' t2 ^, Z+ k3 {+ |
. A6 M4 ~( x( c1 [: }+ nZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
4 ^: j* \, |5 R+ l3 X$ m( gunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- E- s" x% C. `' N
Und 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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