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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will5 T# d. X8 @; D4 K5 B
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English1 Y- w1 N& x7 [$ F
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
1 w4 b- B6 s/ O7 g6 m- q$ k* ]! jplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." ^% P* r# ^7 |6 k, Y. s4 I9 Y
, l' @) ?( U% M4 U. b* CIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make- G& ~* `# c# |
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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: |! h6 j& A# Z' IThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up3 n o( M1 B* O9 f( z5 i
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., ^* t2 J+ }- I* k
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$ |) G, j% ?+ l' ]( ~There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, E5 E; v2 }1 y1 M. O6 e
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like M# x4 j) u. U. d6 w. x8 D+ e5 b
fotograf 20% shorter.
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1 F5 b* R! N4 s8 I( D2 P) EIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# I/ s4 M U4 O; R+ W; L
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.) M6 G, h0 g6 B% b
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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o* f3 F( j2 j# S; XAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
; F3 T% H5 |4 N7 o7 d, H5 T: Zdisgrasful and it should go away.5 ~& [7 i6 {& p5 a! Y* y
( U6 w+ \7 k6 k* ?) C( [, p! [By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
9 f! O+ E( D1 \, R. s"z" and "w" with "v".
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7 I) F3 m+ P, I3 Q# c; h3 o5 B6 ODuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ J# ~ H8 l1 z/ Z( l0 _after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.& g6 A# Y ]0 ~1 [) b1 }
' `' U* m2 ]2 n1 F K. V! x/ TZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* C; T3 ?4 R, I# \
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.; V8 o" I4 c2 o: D
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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' W2 u# \# K2 X# d# w& l% FIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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