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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' w$ O5 c/ d, k1 Y9 e3 Z6 ~
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was1 F# _& H/ b# C4 z6 Z) L
the other possibility.3 r) P+ T! y, z; J; Z' y. z
" v6 } @8 Q& NAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
' ~% a" f2 b' d2 Z: Cspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- F; f9 c7 U4 p$ |, V
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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4 @ O& }& Z/ e% d: B& kIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
/ E6 t$ J# _9 Hthe sivil servants jump with joy.; g; |$ [ J8 X1 s, X! E1 ]6 J
) b6 P g0 h* P6 lThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
; e; ^1 j5 O7 q G3 G' \& Kkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 H* \$ | U8 W( H
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like5 d9 ~, E- K. Q9 e# j8 a3 j
fotograf 20% shorter." p4 h4 D) \; A8 S9 k& Z
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
2 u8 n, C1 G3 i& b( U2 j. Ereach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. H2 \5 n- d f9 `* k; T6 j& F
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
Q1 j: K3 A- r n$ xben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
+ Q* C% k0 g# A9 O Q4 U9 I- V- H- a2 Cdisgrasful and it should go away.
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' b+ J5 |( [7 n/ z1 n$ lBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! F2 s6 r( i# S1 u$ ]
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
K" Q. E) V1 j( Uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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% y/ l$ J/ \& a; X7 zZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu4 i$ T' [9 e! U' O) k% N! t
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 g- U" Q% F) OUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 ?6 o5 s5 e+ L1 g
forst plas.
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. Y( w+ [& @# X9 I gIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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