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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
* ?4 }0 U) E( y% G ?( ybe 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
4 W9 N% l3 W( l/ E! R% lspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% v8 C' @ k5 e. F1 a) v5 u5 G2 B( a
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".9 g2 F8 F! G* D
+ ~: S, T; g; V- H2 \In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
5 m5 e6 Z( G8 ~) _& a& A7 J- Ythe sivil servants jump with joy.5 _& u, `% z9 X2 g0 z0 a
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
k- t+ }4 y. L' ukonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.4 M0 T0 E7 h" z* Y
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the3 T- y- K. ^) S6 g3 E# q: M
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like) I3 ^" H4 F& W/ q) w; f$ L' o
fotograf 20% shorter.0 k9 S5 W& x, O
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to2 w) M3 o& a) Q0 u1 A
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.7 `/ T, }, w% V" e* j5 t6 l
" F* d0 z, U! P0 t0 b6 _Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ]( y. _# V$ G* k6 P
ben a deterent to akurate speling.3 H! g+ E( u9 B F0 N
" F* e3 z0 C N- z7 tAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
0 L: r- U B3 i* h( Q' mdisgrasful and it should go away.6 i, n# ?. L4 X6 y' _( Z
) s, S) q# K3 _9 a4 jBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% ]2 z# [0 O7 y# \
"z" and "w" with "v". F# c+ L* I+ W4 a0 ?- {5 i' Y
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and7 P) B8 r: Q) a& |
after 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: Q5 k, E7 S( Q2 W# z# s
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.9 Y3 c$ z; g! S6 Z/ C+ ~% [. o
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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