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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! J9 O& ~1 i9 L( |; K/ F
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was/ G. j9 \& h$ h' V0 A9 ]
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English( U" v' M5 f, p$ ^* Q6 h T
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" F1 ^9 i* G: P4 H: T( I
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".6 T# D) d( ]* b; `6 Q
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 }) M' F$ R6 Z: K1 _
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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3 [+ e% d+ D( @" \) ]! @0 B' J' r; tThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up& h$ S8 J% e3 N' `
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
$ J' ]% \% n( F- V. m7 @* htroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like& k3 U( }+ J6 ^
fotograf 20% shorter.
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/ O7 V. h. ^2 E. |In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
2 C5 B8 r6 e$ _& f" l* t8 |reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; z8 N! l% t: H% A0 Xben a deterent to akurate speling.
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! D) ^0 Z7 _6 T, x, W# l7 v z0 IAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is6 t$ \0 i" q$ B: }8 @# V
disgrasful and it should go away.: m; K; d' [. T& w) L
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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+ w' b4 G. a' x: M/ U" Q
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 tu3 Z/ z' q9 n) \8 ~& R+ x4 p
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.: S$ h) ^3 Y( }: i9 Z) K
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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9 V2 h; E9 s1 s4 ~- hIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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