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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will+ y5 @6 H/ o: B4 K8 ]. M) `
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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& v0 g" |, Q& U1 G- z2 @1 {3 kAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English0 w) u. O5 O0 O; z) j8 g# n
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 \, {1 u b8 p
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".) b* g# C) M7 q a5 K
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 o, Z {5 }# N) c V
the sivil servants jump with joy.# ~7 J& G, I: a1 t$ X
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up& b! q) r; f) S, |7 O
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the) g T* L* X4 s4 q9 A( x7 V
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
2 u4 A- O0 o. x, V. `& @fotograf 20% shorter.4 D: {' J# b0 W% L: {7 z- U1 i# |
' M1 P4 B: ~! s, IIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
# m9 f1 j7 i2 P& U8 lreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
, [. A' z7 _0 h/ m; D5 \ben a deterent to akurate speling.1 {# U2 ~) ~1 W2 k$ A
; V) Y" A; P9 P8 p( v. m3 QAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is& R' Q+ y$ ^0 L" f. f; j
disgrasful and it should go away.
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1 @) Q! D1 c. Q5 `By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
( e# `1 j) D. Y* c5 \8 J"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 @/ G1 t5 Z G1 _! safter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., X- s9 \' B) K
( i+ w7 w7 d9 Q, R; s$ q2 z& pZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu0 F/ F# w* j4 v% O+ ^
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
9 `: X/ n) l8 z% O+ t8 @Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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7 Q6 p# \4 T1 K: ?6 \If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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