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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
8 L9 g; `% X, N fbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was8 V2 C& A; W4 C. |" R' z
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 w9 u7 [6 R/ Z2 A9 Y& {( h
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
% g W; P v; Z* e" y( Z, H8 d1 P$ mplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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- W" i' | \, V8 t$ DIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 Q/ ?, {' S) f3 G- V+ l
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ e3 t1 T2 J1 D8 t
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 h$ J+ X) s8 x9 T9 D( R- |troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like1 P2 ^5 D2 e1 @! z& f* R0 a" v. [
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to5 X1 D0 b4 z4 d2 L8 `; M- U
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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, ~( v7 f% K/ p3 \. YGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
: ?% E# d1 o& Z0 [0 Aben a deterent to akurate speling.% V- {9 q6 W& \6 ?* E8 G3 m
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is1 ^# |6 j) C" e9 I
disgrasful and it should go away.3 A' d) g* c- D( ~/ Z! A
, f1 A1 C# @' YBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! M$ p+ s" n: ^" a$ Q
"z" and "w" with "v".3 d+ J F" v4 P9 j2 u/ u
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
2 s8 o' S9 ?! S) h+ Lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.8 P3 `2 e* m% R3 `5 j. @& p! f
! q) C( X" F( m- w% FZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& t$ K$ n6 B$ y( [$ K. v/ funderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru., a. [0 n1 a! `5 ~0 P$ p, {
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 j/ E y# b' n2 @ W
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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