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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will7 i1 W0 d" Q# o7 l4 |0 J
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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$ r6 p+ |) U0 D* `; aAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English' n9 x5 j; Q) [; k
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in. B" C; w/ e5 Y ?
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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$ n$ n% Q% I: }: i4 v! X6 iIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
* H/ K& p+ J2 Cthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up" i- S/ j) q4 k" q6 ?2 o( ?% y8 q
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.. r, i" c2 W" c; R& K0 v4 ?
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the9 D; n+ x: k1 ^
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like6 F1 F* K, O I5 J8 @( l0 i U
fotograf 20% shorter.
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, O* Z! {1 }" UIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to4 ~# {% Z3 J+ ?" G9 |: d
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.3 h# p/ A9 A7 A: j9 P+ l3 m$ A
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
3 L+ K+ W s) T3 {' s- o: Mben a deterent to akurate speling.
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; { p$ L. N# |& fAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is8 L7 J8 _. ^, G
disgrasful and it should go away.
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( P/ a M( C' m) j5 a0 E. NBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
+ ?; V5 G e2 ?4 W"z" and "w" with "v".
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1 U; e: E. z" _/ JDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
: b, R& c& A0 M) xafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.& G/ y. e# p! Q9 ]; p. f- q7 o
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu$ k3 ?$ r$ ~6 f! s
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 o, U- h7 }: ~+ gUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze7 d. Q& j: d) i
forst plas.! \0 Z) }4 W& i# `: \
# o* V( _- I+ k7 P. P2 j5 zIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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