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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will, {: @+ _! t9 `1 \' b) | o
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 English4 m9 O N, w/ n3 ^
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
: w; n* n. i' oplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".' J- H' m$ O: B
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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2 u3 C& F6 d" c% K0 ~* ^The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
U' `' S- }: b/ c: B7 `& Y$ Gkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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4 e% y- ?5 j4 `: w3 j9 R# j. d C( @There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 ]. Z1 Z% K% F; e1 z8 m/ H
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like$ E4 Y; G* H- c2 y% v
fotograf 20% shorter.
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: {6 j# r" L; I, j4 S; k, DIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to9 x! {: v1 E5 K% h3 b* d1 ]0 x0 k
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
/ s0 \/ _' Y2 P+ W- gben a deterent to akurate speling.
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/ d- E# }: R- `6 G! c; `Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is) M6 f4 L7 A8 v
disgrasful and it should go away.& Q, ^5 u( t- E/ e: r7 |$ v0 P
0 l8 I$ O" _# v$ vBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with. o8 ^6 F- I% u% ]% o4 o2 Y. b! R
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" ~. v ^' {, ^6 H1 c; {5 s
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 B; h& X- Z6 I0 D1 s4 |* Q
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu2 G7 b& E* f+ J
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.7 C9 m* Q; c3 e$ x8 ?" Q( e, J
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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