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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
( o' i6 @ q; K" x4 Ibe 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
w$ l* M E/ b5 p" e% ?spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- c5 k/ D3 p+ v3 G( @
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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: p) S- I2 | j( O3 Z' P. _+ N, RIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make# h3 Y: i+ f* [: O' W
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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4 y. w; }9 C3 @The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% z ?$ @& m7 M
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: r. G9 X3 z/ u; p9 {1 z; t! _
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
% ?+ N! ~0 `! R. k* n! p% z$ D. ~troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
. F& I2 u) Y$ P, s! efotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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?9 M) ~& A) W& U& `& iGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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4 N+ B; y4 j) ^! cAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is$ Z6 X! H$ d$ S. g$ Y
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with6 E' d6 j9 Y8 t+ w, s, t4 [
"z" and "w" with "v".
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+ w6 _8 O/ a8 K7 @2 E9 W3 KDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and# p9 K7 B8 ~" \' ~. e, c- f
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. `! q5 z% t" W6 ^3 I3 F% M
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu3 m$ z+ a# }. @: G( K; e( J; B
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.. a( g; g8 S, n& L! s
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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