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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will% X, `$ r% v$ A1 h1 p/ j
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English# L4 u% E7 _- E/ w, E
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in9 B: G! g# W; k& {" Z4 ~
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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! {, x* G7 K3 [6 d, H! \In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
. Z( Z) M8 U1 F% Nthe sivil servants jump with joy.% J6 T% N5 j: @8 j
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up1 h, v. a# D8 ?0 O2 i7 i1 D5 m1 }
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 M( a6 m6 z2 T+ S* F0 h, _
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
* R! l! i5 ~) q/ @7 C5 G4 S2 vtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like8 y# V0 y& ]/ {: h9 m( o( R2 |
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
6 |: q ?) g" Jreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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0 {% n' ^7 O/ n8 MGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always2 e2 G- d& C( [5 R6 Q: A, A
ben a deterent to akurate speling.+ o) {4 I# z; e! U
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
: m) M6 g- C) S4 M! X2 b' m; h9 \- tdisgrasful and it should go away.! E! @+ M* B' K; w0 F6 d3 k4 U
2 L* k! F+ @+ `By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( u6 X' v! w5 c7 ]- v
"z" and "w" with "v".: m! ^" t- a! |! O: ^
* G" }; s& {0 PDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ |! _0 o. O2 R" }4 mafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.5 B7 q6 F, ?" x$ Y0 q0 f& x% z% e
8 \7 v; j7 d* e5 jZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
5 k+ h+ V5 r. R. B; h/ lunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 E0 E) \! A p: KUnd 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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