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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
5 n) i* D+ z/ [3 p! xbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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6 a' A. U( B: E/ D$ O9 N* t5 \As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
( b( r5 t/ m# l5 u2 h2 Mspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, }% G2 `% O7 U# k4 I5 Y
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".* `; a+ G/ W2 R' \# [ G0 D
4 [ g8 v; |+ UIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
- _/ {! }7 O$ C. g% Athe sivil servants jump with joy.
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1 g2 Z# \0 j5 q* gThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up0 j4 Z9 h) ~$ _! q1 j
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.3 W& L% ~# n" ?+ x5 j! s" f3 y
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7 b4 R$ @- e) H1 c4 S& wThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
( K/ F) d/ \ ntroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
% u1 k+ {; k8 e/ V3 T+ L: k: Gfotograf 20% shorter.. c" e% J& ]( z( V$ e
3 m2 V/ M' }9 @In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
( [5 L! _ y, c3 Preach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.3 N2 B- P0 c) [* q2 `
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
% V& g9 F( A- U& N x- yben a deterent to akurate speling.
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$ Q; X( g* }1 b3 l8 M) s0 K( FAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
7 u# p: s& R! }% udisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with* x6 Z- i* ]- K2 L# O. G; z
"z" and "w" with "v".) ~$ e U( C$ K
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 p% d) }6 b1 j5 h1 k4 ]- J' kafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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; }8 [! U5 x/ v$ jZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
2 ?. r* |; v% l) O5 r* u% O( h. sunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.' G b: c( L7 O9 E2 d
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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