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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
) i3 F" y9 X: o# ?9 T0 Ebe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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0 S0 g6 G$ W& J) Q/ RAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
+ J& h C: V" i% J4 O, Gspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in1 ]6 w1 n' c% j" T2 R' t
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".0 }5 u; |5 D! F' T1 {; S
4 g" F$ P; G1 l: j1 DIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
1 F) }; m9 b6 w, U* Y0 O' J& ^the sivil servants jump with joy./ @2 r- o) T# K. Y
3 f3 s; y: l1 x: s0 wThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up& I0 D3 g, A# \5 n& e" Y7 e
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 \+ E$ y3 S9 p, n r6 U
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the" p) L* G j" n. w/ |; O
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; b8 V$ e; t. R- h
fotograf 20% shorter., S/ Y9 T# z+ D0 L4 \0 F
. W1 K/ I! `7 d8 ]* A: ^In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
8 L2 D$ z( S7 k4 u& O- Areach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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5 e$ _5 `! J# TGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
0 [; U2 C" F4 J! ~& ?ben a deterent to akurate speling.. \8 I4 }3 d9 v3 J( p3 o
2 t: h( O* Q* T! }, F, AAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
) K! _' a0 U$ ?9 x! }. R5 j4 E0 c' edisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with) w& a! a2 m \, m5 C
"z" and "w" with "v".
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. L D; Z7 I' ^4 O- RDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" B* Z" u4 d2 ]
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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$ J, l, a7 E" D K& J' zZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
: A% v4 ?! ]' K0 yunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru." t7 U* `' s# V
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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