Bravo-man
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> > 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,
> the British 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 enkorage 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.
> >
> >
> > Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking
> > German like zey vunted in ze forst place....
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| Dane
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Nicely done!
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