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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
L3 p7 C' x9 B3 ~' d- Y2 Q6 W* bbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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, q$ ]' r1 ~8 d* G" JAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% A& m" H2 R# m
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in! u! ^+ X7 J. i* B1 v* e" ?
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 X: B4 R# y- |# M/ I! B& p
the sivil servants jump with joy.0 |* r9 q7 @% e" t# W( T$ v) `( \
|; ]% Z! V) ZThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up q' J- L3 A5 E8 g
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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( s5 Z5 S% }& y/ WThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the; q2 Q+ O! \0 `1 [
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
* P: K h3 X9 c# [9 hfotograf 20% shorter.6 V+ @! Q5 U: K& `. d' ^+ J
( `5 e0 M, f* j4 |+ A X5 F6 Y( UIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to3 I) B0 g. K3 N, A
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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: o/ A3 {2 i$ W) }) C* ^5 GGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always+ X' l7 Y3 ]( O8 g
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 is
d( ~+ U/ o6 R! |; [# B1 bdisgrasful and it should go away.( a% d1 G" W; _! V! T, u- P" N& {
R" T0 p: F$ t' _By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ l r6 v, q4 @6 A) |) u0 a
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 J; O8 K5 F0 N! N% U# Gafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.1 l. v4 g. T3 k) a' Z5 e& i" C
' g! ]) }# w0 H0 l: ?* YZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* r$ [, h9 U# x& e3 `+ C( e! K
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.; `3 ]4 u# _& P* y; I3 O
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze, G2 `. e( A! |$ X: n# t% K
forst plas.7 g& F/ F- T! `3 I
0 m* Z& g% c6 v/ Y% _, {. N }/ {1 B- SIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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