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"EuroEnglish"
The European Union commissioners
have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English
as the preferred language for European communications, rather
than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded
that English spelling had some room for improvement and has
accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as
EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, 's' will be used instead of the soft 'c'.
Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy.
Also, the hard 'c' will be replaced with 'k.' Not only will
this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less
letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year,
when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced by 'f'. This will
make words like 'fotograf' 20 per sent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan
be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes
are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double
letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent 'e's in the
languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing 'th' by 'z' and 'w' by 'v'.
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords
kontaining 'ou', and similar changes vud of kors; be aplid
to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil b no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find
it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
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