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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will& S/ i% m" |0 M) u! b9 G
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was8 ^* }+ S2 c9 b7 n
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% Z; m( V0 |3 A1 }As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
) Z5 i9 f4 Y! ?0 n3 yspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* G% A4 _. q0 X* i2 lplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
6 _ g4 W T& G( E) z0 Jthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up2 x2 L V8 ]/ \6 ~" F$ E
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter." g+ s+ Z' p4 F! m; P9 J8 p
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& J# G' E. X$ @There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 y$ J- v" w# T7 F+ G* Gtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like$ q2 t. A; s- E! i' R
fotograf 20% shorter.+ H7 N0 Z4 f/ h& [3 ~: n. Q
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to; d* B' S" \4 `+ L3 c$ e) R
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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$ a" d# d/ ]$ s' {" d3 VGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
`* ~9 [# o0 C: [+ f* Bben a deterent to akurate speling.+ h! ?/ V0 j, P0 Q; J: _9 Q
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
8 h; A1 S' G" R1 Edisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
4 k& h0 R/ ~7 V) O' V; j"z" and "w" with "v".
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. i/ r' u1 v" x+ V9 x" ^During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and# b9 |/ J$ e4 ^$ [$ z
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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' u' O' w0 @. _6 R- a% OZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& M: W8 L& ~# H: h- ~. @' w& V0 _understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
% w% B# P0 i) W4 CUnd 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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