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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 e7 }& k+ O$ y+ j& O4 U* W& H
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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& Q6 M+ t& p5 W6 A/ lAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 B" @6 z4 I" O
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in: f, \# y1 U6 L
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 {. U( r/ j6 y" M& S( H7 u9 z
the sivil servants jump with joy.# j9 P- z1 s, x9 ` B5 l
9 N8 u, R- w5 d1 u! jThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
5 Y$ c% ]1 d, o. i2 jkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 W1 o! j" }0 z. d
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the" A- u; l( r+ Y- k6 X" P
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
) _1 ^2 B! |0 _: Q" _5 Ffotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 o* k- x/ I# o% K% j' b; t/ ereach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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: J! I0 _5 b* l4 e q8 Y8 }Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always( a% L* \9 v7 S C( Z' U: F& ]; f
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 N `: U9 S# U) R3 u" l( u
disgrasful and it should go away.
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3 c. e0 [" p( B( DBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with1 _1 x. e2 U! i: m- E, ^
"z" and "w" with "v".- o7 t* d& T" L( _) y
% ^! l9 A6 t8 FDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
7 Y& H2 a2 P, I: {after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.- F; r! A( H/ r. _* u# s2 W
$ d8 r0 E9 W5 D) D9 \; ` n/ W$ v# U: MZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu+ U# o* H1 Q% s5 [2 T% h* _
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru." ^4 g$ r U# L+ v3 B" W4 S/ d
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze9 u, B3 N3 k& z a
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) J3 p1 `* K o$ P5 ]& s0 CIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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