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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
+ i" m# w9 s. vbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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/ B2 V+ w: }2 wAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
5 u& b( s4 a+ a. Q5 Lspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, U8 @4 `. ~ r6 Y8 y
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".2 S- [, Q0 Z5 @6 j
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
) P0 B# B7 A. ]( n1 C% Ithe sivil servants jump with joy.
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4 O1 V3 ~7 U* P' P+ IThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up! K5 x! O8 |) ? Q6 J& N# x7 Q
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
. X! A. N# p' R& Y+ g5 O, _troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
! t7 {4 \, d. }! `fotograf 20% shorter.
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{# |% _+ V$ XIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
) ~- H/ i8 N) L) J( J7 B6 t. ^# z$ ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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- l. @2 i- s) a1 z) ZGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
3 u. L$ v; b; H1 _ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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9 T+ t: d* @/ O: m" B7 e1 AAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' U' i: X: u* Z) Y$ X. |" O1 p& Sdisgrasful 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" f9 O& V. j% E# b
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and! ?2 F8 Z8 z" A0 T1 O" x
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" i) L4 u( h5 f- I$ l1 J: Funderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
6 i. i7 h7 M' h# {, y3 e. JUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze. m2 R# Z$ O- \# _( {1 r9 r
forst plas.
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( {$ B: _9 w t( p5 t& zIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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