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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
1 ]4 P7 \8 K$ g6 E, mbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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( Z* ?8 h0 b* z, I. `As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
4 n0 c2 C4 z( i9 Q% F$ @spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
8 Z! \7 i, C. i$ a9 g6 u3 h. A, }plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
; B/ }& w8 d, Q3 F( \- x) |the sivil servants jump with joy./ L @, N3 L5 ?4 i
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ W( `% j3 g7 |' [7 F& |2 c
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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* J6 ?0 L$ T7 O2 K9 CThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 @7 \8 S1 t; Ctroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
4 h ^% I' }# u: e; s8 U4 }fotograf 20% shorter.: m/ w( w3 N" l+ R# J; G+ Y
) |. R5 B' }6 O0 z/ U: C7 xIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
# x) P5 y. ^+ U$ ~# freach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.5 t6 g+ N$ `7 R' K- h) G4 U' c
. q. e. w' Q( I4 p4 q0 V0 z0 ~Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& U$ I: e9 k) u
ben a deterent to akurate speling.& q( O7 q7 E" O* Q |" t- K5 O
* q* j; t7 c- s1 ~( I9 D/ S: ]8 }Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
. ?$ i1 @' {' ^) E4 p5 qdisgrasful and it should go away.
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9 S: h5 m, r; JBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with- P n( S7 @$ e
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
( d9 A/ c# k9 D7 i; yafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
1 ^' b. s# Y/ Gunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.3 Q+ }$ L$ |/ A t: C4 t
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze1 y) @, m c# h! }, A
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' X( Q* x* Z( ?1 l TIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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