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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, x6 D) e* ?6 h3 cbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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) ?9 `* }+ b/ [- c4 _As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. L7 H$ |0 H8 A& N7 Z% B# K
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
; C+ S6 h& c w: o" S' hplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ Q+ p5 K/ u. E r
) a9 u7 y- H$ B T, I' J7 Y! Z9 H jIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 C6 K# \6 C: g* Y+ q7 |
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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5 B, b* T8 I. K4 oThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
% _# }) b- o/ e9 fkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.! ^& S0 p3 j! I
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the3 N1 k. M' m: J3 q0 @5 n& v
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like, M g! J3 z5 F& m, n
fotograf 20% shorter.
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4 u9 |* S& y5 z& u; a/ l: X7 ]1 f1 a6 R, TIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ |; v! {3 ^+ N, t- B0 `2 Dreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible./ h/ Z8 f: W5 t, z) _0 c
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* h% J, o2 C: ^: R6 R
ben 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
+ ~# d1 }* v5 Zdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% j0 S7 x8 l% {
"z" and "w" with "v".- o" |4 Y, h; M4 l( z* F; E* W( h' Z
& t5 s& _. B; n' N9 M4 IDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
8 F, w( E5 u/ A2 ]) I/ F& Uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.! y g m% S4 k) _7 N
+ I. g/ c8 j7 P( \2 e# X+ P a3 VZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu' N& K* m$ I& j# x) t2 N5 E
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
7 {8 X+ F. Q$ {Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze0 }% s! T' [. [% @) d2 Z
forst plas.
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, z( @* m9 k+ P% o OIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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