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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
9 b+ c1 j1 `7 M* @" ?# y2 a' @be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was3 N# i9 T/ s, S7 K5 d4 L
the other possibility.
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3 x1 ^" O, d$ B- S! h( n, sAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
& X0 c8 M3 T5 ?" J1 X- pspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
, j! O/ Q* I4 X. mplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".6 M. u9 }# }$ H' a; n* K# B
/ ]' r5 b* n" LIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make: f% x: n4 y! M6 r- y' r
the sivil servants jump with joy.- g' V9 h Z+ p! F3 W2 V& g
3 O) o- H t, K7 [The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
' ^3 @( ^$ C: H% ukonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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# t/ w& a$ e; U4 F# fThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, L7 L+ C/ u; i( D1 W- c
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
$ n8 `9 M3 ?' C2 T* s nfotograf 20% shorter.3 B3 a; Y6 D8 I$ o$ R8 N
6 ]2 V2 B2 P9 t9 A: g- AIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
( ]% p# H1 L* F& ~6 Hreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
g; P7 o2 T1 F, g @+ }# ?7 bben a deterent to akurate speling.% R/ E% l1 b5 p+ C' c
+ c% V2 l- ?) Z( n) LAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
5 Z0 d- u" F, m( u5 Bdisgrasful and it should go away.7 v% X+ C! G. u+ e V) T* E% u1 `
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
- i$ ]8 z, Y: s"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 K' d, _$ N4 f' uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.5 w* T% N2 b X8 i, R
- O. T! O( J7 PZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu! V% p: g: K; D6 ^! U r p
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.6 w, r1 E7 K! T( ?* S0 i( Q
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 M; S% ]$ ?8 v2 R( n
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$ B0 ~, S$ Z. @7 |5 g( }3 h8 ?If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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