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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
& Y( b7 a/ C8 e, r6 \7 lbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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8 T6 O0 J2 T3 s9 Z: N4 ^) }As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English6 n1 X. P5 k8 O. _7 p! ?1 r
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 j) K8 Z9 L, C# n7 I1 i
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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+ ?7 q/ u4 B/ {" t; S7 @/ d5 U' VIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
# m% r: h& R: h+ |, ^, D% B, }& [# Hthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
, E7 e; U7 i& {" a( G8 ?8 @8 ]konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* \- Q& r2 A0 [ e& ?5 X/ D
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6 [% ~" }" `; aThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the N% E4 ]3 F$ C5 q. o9 Q2 K
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
, k$ q2 n7 Y' \reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always( l( W& d. I3 ~' f+ A6 h
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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! F5 Z. p5 I7 \7 f6 U% OAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
! f: \; }* F& U& idisgrasful and it should go away.
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By 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"and
2 T4 ^. R, L+ {! O `3 ?: M" Aafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; A4 ]/ U2 N' x% L( r: O; B
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
, M8 h- w4 X2 Z* junderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ V# c3 \6 N7 s. K2 C! |Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze: f9 ^+ [, i7 k* P N
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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