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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ ?6 z# E, ^9 p, r( o$ c3 h, I& Hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was o4 a" Z7 Z% s3 X3 r
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English( V& O. d a8 y- d6 C5 g9 h
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in. Y! G+ W$ X( n5 Q
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- _/ E9 V" T; x
" e7 [, ~- Q6 r* XIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make. u! V2 t/ m! }2 K* Z7 s7 Y
the sivil servants jump with joy.+ y3 u1 U; k) F/ c/ o
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up- f/ \7 ~& P8 P; V3 K$ P' ]2 G
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.; X9 A( A' M$ l! c5 H$ L! N/ m" s
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& H; X! Y7 ]! K1 d" qThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
7 n9 w7 R; R" A! l- l5 L9 utroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
6 x% e" b# {) z5 \5 T: O# Gfotograf 20% shorter.9 l$ a R3 U9 Z* T9 \6 F
$ W$ M9 n9 a2 hIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to" h8 i1 a1 j- ~# d; }* Y% C# O
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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( t; a* P0 h0 `, P* SGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" s$ K/ S4 _. \! ~' r
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
) R* g" \8 H4 Z7 X" xdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
7 E; b( \4 Z! l# a"z" and "w" with "v".% u0 o2 x9 w0 n4 S6 p
/ Q1 M, Q# w6 L8 A: Y) Q0 wDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) q W6 P% F: \# Q2 O. I+ f' xafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 |& ?* h; g, K8 o: f4 Y8 e
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. Y+ _1 z. m$ L7 _, R% hunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.9 M2 L l- e4 D: s {, o1 ^
Und 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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