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Re: EuroEnglish
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- Subject: Re: EuroEnglish
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- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:05:06 +0200 (MET DST)
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Viz speling lik zis, ho neds kriptografy?
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> ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION COMMISSIONERS
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> An 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 has some room for improvement and has
> accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish
> (Euro for short).
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> In the first year, "s" will be used instead of "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 komputers
> and 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.
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> 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 disgracful, and
> they would go.
>
> By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
> "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
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> 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 be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to
> understand ech ozer.
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> ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU.
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