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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will5 H. D$ Q1 f- }( w& K# |) j
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English, Q( z7 |5 W) m/ r
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! ?: k# Y( A% D+ h; S: [, r6 U- Y
the sivil servants jump with joy.! }5 `. |0 V4 b+ q4 I" ^) | y
- D" y0 k7 O9 }% G. m6 iThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% }* t, M& [& Y( A8 ]
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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/ r0 {2 F7 `0 O8 R# a6 z9 }8 qThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the3 M- @) F1 S0 H: S4 j$ Z, j. _5 \& c
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to+ X0 o! i7 {7 T7 T% x) I2 K
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 `+ M6 R9 I6 D1 j% R+ J2 S
ben a deterent to akurate speling.) m9 h2 Q7 j2 `
1 }% I, { g0 _7 `* @; DAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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% c1 g7 m% V% T1 KBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and2 i, w9 G$ s" [8 w3 o% Z
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.! Y- c8 Z. q) j1 h5 f
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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: j: x- s# y! ?: s! z$ Q) ZUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze& [; p! x9 a6 v/ t( T
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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