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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
6 X, J0 w* ]1 e, @$ cbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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0 q' ^& v, Y/ c2 i! H8 ?/ g& [As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English1 y0 D1 d. h% p
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 T; M+ W9 F* H1 R x; u4 e& Q0 X" W
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 u& {6 A0 ~) E5 j5 H3 D: w- K1 w
' P# [$ F+ {) w; SIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
# w6 `8 h) u' a: B- I" Ithe sivil servants jump with joy., U" M7 A, G$ T. Z4 E2 Z
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ _7 b' d3 r5 `+ h
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.( Q5 P9 |$ d: C/ r( u
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
3 G+ n1 Q2 y# T" v0 o7 Jtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like" l V; F% d4 n+ K" p( U' E8 Z
fotograf 20% shorter." H% m# b% H3 p: P- l
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to3 S! `' h/ \/ c- a# ^; ]
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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6 k' g* m( v) X) w2 V" W1 wGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
2 F: q4 P, u7 S" B9 k9 Y+ Z3 tben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is" b$ ~% B3 L% S4 o* t' s
disgrasful and it should go away.5 V1 F0 Q# f, _
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
9 @$ C& ?( A; l0 R) \"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* E, h9 D9 m4 @/ c$ r* Q' }% xafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl." C" U* w# a; e# H/ s2 `- Z
& } f) p: }5 M. s3 O8 _8 `9 x5 DZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" ~* {; X8 e+ a" Eunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
7 P, E7 j8 h" JUnd 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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