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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
9 A/ i+ E2 f% d+ Y& G% _& Mbe 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! N+ G2 _0 K. }* p" ~+ s8 d) l) u3 p
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
7 j5 x `1 r1 g1 f- a9 vplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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) q3 w) y( T+ T# d0 [/ LIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 T O1 ?6 R8 Q" e( q$ q1 O8 Y
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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' ?3 W @. p+ v6 C$ oThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up1 l/ r+ h) Q2 K3 F9 g% P# i
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.$ L" X0 D# B) H2 m* [6 q
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the3 L9 L) c- W# o, k
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
" y! A# O% }. Q4 h1 A Kfotograf 20% shorter.7 ?3 p) b! ]1 s8 M( C: d
# O; B6 p$ C( V' }0 LIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to! X6 F2 ~% S. C. }: G3 p
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.1 T* A! m+ l5 T$ v3 J4 V; X! {" E
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% \/ B' ]/ ^' ~% Z6 M
ben a deterent to akurate speling.3 y% G; h! |. M0 A9 [* U: n/ R9 o( T
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is$ N. y( L% E* m4 p; N3 ~
disgrasful and it should go away.7 N9 \, Z" F* B7 V8 ~) q
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with- M) G I$ b: u" E& x+ _
"z" and "w" with "v".
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/ h& D/ p- f: P2 I# B( ~During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and- J; _2 p" [: ^! a( v. r# Z
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.* {8 x9 }$ L! ~
: e; ~/ w' r% K! KZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu( L; D. O* ]8 }( F* Y
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
& v2 ?! ?: l4 Z5 O; N- K- L, eUnd 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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