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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' h' J7 v$ \" Q* i" q. {" Z9 J
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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& Y7 d1 A& K$ O# H2 hAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
" m G2 I6 U& {spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
/ z2 h7 S: I5 g& e8 A+ ]& Nplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".0 H) T- B6 O& v$ q0 s
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 [2 a `' i' z+ R' E
the sivil servants jump with joy.1 r: H! d. t2 E* `, B b1 v- B
' m$ O! t" V# RThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
- n3 q7 F9 D7 @% U8 Y0 f Pkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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& q h6 C, |/ A% j$ b5 o' S5 m0 vThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the9 b9 W6 [5 |# r
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like9 n0 N; A) r% V0 W# f4 B6 P
fotograf 20% shorter.% d' L& P5 W0 C. C/ _# J
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 Z2 {& @% z; x; u0 Freach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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& D7 u0 I) K9 O, r$ VGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! D2 c. C8 {1 d( k2 x4 C. _, \
ben a deterent to akurate speling.( B) p. p0 {' r0 |- J" [
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' W2 _" [$ u1 M: hdisgrasful and it should go away./ U& K/ _8 @0 n% p( N
9 }% ^" r6 x6 w, s+ iBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
+ J1 P" d2 _1 B+ G1 J% w"z" and "w" with "v".
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3 f- U- P0 ]) d" sDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 I8 i0 r: ?) | i' i- P, W, S" _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 e2 A; J. l9 }/ J! k$ p2 @: u4 tunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.0 v0 H( z. }2 x- y/ c2 i
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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7 j4 S5 c4 Y d U# H) CIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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