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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will" ~; E! I/ l; Q: ~
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was8 o, J4 F8 b+ ]+ z; i. b
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* o1 M* A3 i) s2 v2 g, oAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
3 H O# S" e; _) _. _spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" V" s$ q, r. _8 `- d! S- n3 c0 ]! i
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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8 T, U i' h0 c- \; k( E- C- O$ LIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
) w( s; |( Z' y5 Y; C; i z* ethe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
" U7 x, G+ d! f+ x* a5 Rkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.- x2 O7 b+ b. p# f5 a5 c7 b6 A+ t: u
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4 j7 R) z$ G n' Z1 L9 [There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the6 [; O2 X4 l1 W" C; ?! B3 U' d
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
: X1 A6 |, ~) _0 e3 M; U& [, h0 ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
# `- N- e( Q# ]& Z9 l4 N& k: Rben a deterent to akurate speling.3 Y1 W' V h( i; |0 H
# b4 L- O4 e% s1 v0 H; pAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is/ P- f& N( |1 H) y% @
disgrasful 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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$ Q5 U6 c& }' hDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
/ d4 R, [: D! N( \$ E: g5 Kafter 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% j' a6 i* I! E1 N0 N- X
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.0 R$ U5 H* k) V9 N2 @- O! w
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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