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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will) K; B5 b* w: a1 Q" ]; d
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was( D2 ^6 Q" l& y% @# ^
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" l+ E. d% \4 F8 X. ]3 iAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English* ~ I" e# K6 \5 j$ B% W, I
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
+ ~, F$ ^% D; E8 e% e+ G1 Pplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".: p" i: E V, ~6 g( w& N: j
/ N$ G5 Q8 R7 ?! l# m! f* lIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make/ U5 d0 _( z J0 P1 w, X
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up8 S+ w- C' q% p
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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: J7 a3 A; |$ p5 @There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ W5 U. d$ I. ^/ L; q% Utroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like' A" F+ V: ?0 Q
fotograf 20% shorter.) Z3 D; F6 B5 ^7 l# ~% Q, r
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to7 f7 i$ b+ r4 z0 [2 v% Q! Y2 f
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.0 d8 U' x5 Y3 L- C( h t( g- W3 f
' w% e+ [; ^& o' X9 [3 `' E1 ^Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; `4 y: ]% G0 A( T- x/ Zben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
: H* `1 ?' D# A" U) S1 Y0 ldisgrasful and it should go away.3 p# `% F p9 C! u
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with2 z" m/ s/ w& R5 K# [6 g
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
w; p! Y% e+ h4 }! O; @7 gafter 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
# I7 ]# D0 r, A5 h" punderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.& D) u3 y1 [6 s" x. Q% p
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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4 f" d& O" B: {- }8 UIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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