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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will* l% l' `, G1 j# t N
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was1 X8 o. x) u& B# _. g2 `
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& y5 \ c8 K& AAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English, a B* w' ?; m1 e1 [5 Y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
- i$ @( j+ o3 m& }plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! }$ N9 w2 G' ^, M
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
! }6 f+ I' C0 u1 ~* P( _# m/ P9 ^konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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1 z! Z0 \6 x! _5 P3 ~There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
* G; u! Y5 H" ~4 Q* Ctroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! K' t' s1 i9 R+ z' V
fotograf 20% shorter.. i# d/ v; o' y2 c J
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to' V8 g4 Z% R5 B$ L( f+ Y1 |
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always2 l6 e0 g8 j; g& C
ben a deterent to akurate speling.$ a" h, v: Z) E
, N4 W) R! U" X- Q8 b- lAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is; K9 S8 y8 `# O; `
disgrasful and it should go away.+ Z9 m. R, q i1 m4 J( W" o
( ?6 U. ~2 P( @: h. K4 m7 ~. c2 IBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
9 K5 _' L. M5 Y) z"z" and "w" with "v".
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4 D R9 z6 g d- |During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
( W5 b; i$ c9 iafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.: @4 {* W9 L- Y, B2 j+ D8 p
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
4 ~+ y; f# _$ L! q6 `understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ V$ }! f& E3 {
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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+ Z; h+ c) @. {If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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