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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ l' M( W& |) g. Ebe 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: G8 e3 V6 [ V
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
7 h( t+ {" n9 j$ _5 V' Tplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! i! S O! _/ w! |% [* h: v2 v
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
7 m" E8 S; W0 m2 ukonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.- o( F" C! N3 x6 ~
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6 }5 U& _+ C1 p/ B+ u" BThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the8 ?- D+ L0 z; v; h
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like6 t+ h9 ^1 P0 h% L% j
fotograf 20% shorter. U2 w# P! n: X- ^, M
1 ~+ ~. v( C3 kIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
% M( e, U: T2 E3 _; P) r3 }3 Treach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- F$ H+ N8 P$ X9 e* H' ^
' l" V( Q7 n; _% @0 X$ V6 GGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# |. |; e/ ]! i0 e5 R
ben a deterent to akurate speling.3 K5 h) m5 f. S% b/ @: C7 B
" D- b: Q0 f* H" |6 A5 y9 b" `Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is0 T% t6 {- M) d
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with' b2 e: T' h q0 p
"z" and "w" with "v"., w; n7 E6 ^3 D# g' K9 J: f
2 M" l0 u" P l+ `/ Y2 o' i: rDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
2 P% ]: E7 T* p2 d+ V7 Qafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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D; j: Z9 F, F9 sZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. m' w$ l4 ]8 a0 t! u' Junderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 K. ?3 g, e2 Z4 p# OUnd 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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