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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will# O: U$ b0 i2 y: r
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 English
Q' z0 c+ p- \- z7 z. ~! V; Espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
- o+ M1 G4 i4 d& ^plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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: h1 o m6 |! w. HIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make) q6 P" o: `7 P' t! z9 E
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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& o7 o2 Q4 h" O* B6 I! tThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up3 R) |/ ~" C3 L: ?, d
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the2 ^; E' t l% Y F" x
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
# W6 J3 c" }6 U3 k& nfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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) I m) }5 Y3 f" V! ^Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always) j) K) f' m1 \0 r
ben a deterent to akurate speling.& o+ a, ]& f2 D% o& T; p4 [+ |) X
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
& y* q+ f1 K4 N" e' jdisgrasful and it should go away.) L) [2 m( d# L" [- ^: ^3 X
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ T: V% I$ l9 ^6 ^0 m+ P
"z" and "w" with "v".
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. J3 X' P% f" k8 `& N9 N6 g- n1 E2 HDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and9 T, f( k3 @6 B9 Y0 c
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
4 x" q# F9 f+ ^. xunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.& c/ b" I0 y: e% m. P
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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& j7 G* T) L- QIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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