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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will9 c' f- E9 F7 I
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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. S9 l0 K- c- r; x9 Y* pAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
0 ]! Y0 u3 P4 `3 f. vspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
6 x# S. n3 k3 S: ~plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make( X H+ W+ j3 {$ Y- h! |/ e' q
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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4 g5 h* g v1 F' u# TThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up0 [8 l- G/ b8 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* f% e1 `8 D& J/ v. o
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like/ ~ W1 g1 T. O
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
- l8 ~3 g5 z' b6 H0 A1 x' breach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.% d) O1 a. S0 Q. X, f
3 D1 r! \4 m) p$ j# N" A9 qGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
J$ _3 |. ]; t$ f! ^) b& Q+ c3 Yben 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- `0 _) ]1 C- T
disgrasful and it should go away.
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$ t( N$ h1 q* v+ d% vBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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) h$ F: C" z7 z1 y! y/ }During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and! v W$ q9 V: o' y
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 y" R3 Z" \+ T3 V9 _4 @( n
/ S& O% b3 A! i3 I! HZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu% V% L( e: G) R" ~
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ ?, n! ]% C0 ]( |Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze: @6 b2 {, {& W
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. x( J3 f* U4 w, T1 p# c: n a. DIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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