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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, Z7 A) X8 T- Ibe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was( e1 y4 D/ R0 m; R6 o3 _! ^
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
3 }: ?3 y( `' w" V; \spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
% }& R. C7 t4 N% F& _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
+ t/ C! u! O, d& j/ R: P) l% X3 M6 qthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
; i1 ~, f, |# }9 {% T" p3 I6 Ekonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.) \* V, }7 b9 j5 i* K1 T, J [
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' R- R5 b' ^' ?There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, h# h& h+ A' i$ f% S3 Ptroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 D( i7 d/ D. ]( r
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ H) Q2 \% }- \+ A2 s& j l8 {9 y* Wreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.! r; E0 v6 c, `5 p; u' \: \+ {
6 ~/ l: m$ t# o# BGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
4 m1 a3 J; L1 n, ~8 Cben 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+ X# [3 S0 ^: w2 c
disgrasful and it should go away.
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: ?6 o) ]* ~7 c9 I* yBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with; C; |% X T/ }, A B% j$ L! c
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 d9 G8 i% _: Y/ y! X# p* S& P. Z
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; `! U( q# J: S) q h6 k0 v
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
" _. @2 R4 m; S1 _Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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. o8 F P: H0 a! V" dIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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