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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 c5 g7 N2 z+ o4 G8 ^, t
be 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 English2 {( c/ O6 D5 ^/ s
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& d5 Y4 ^3 Z9 x6 a9 \+ A3 kplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
8 \# n* d G. _6 _the sivil servants jump with joy.
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0 y3 R# V7 v9 ~- AThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: {% S1 e5 s! L
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
* Z3 Z% a4 z+ _troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 n: i) K: {( }" N2 D/ |3 j! v3 ?
fotograf 20% shorter.: t) ^" C0 [; n: |
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. U5 l# l, Q( @& |6 G/ X
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
, \3 N& c0 W7 K9 |, P9 M: Cben a deterent to akurate speling.% s* m. A T. y) v$ m
- Y0 W& X6 X ^% M+ yAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
d" O/ V& C7 Wdisgrasful and it should go away.4 s% {* l) @* g( p
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with5 l% Y! Y0 B2 x- i- ^+ u. p
"z" and "w" with "v".
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( ?7 Z* b4 e2 r/ e) \% _During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and! g- j" i/ l1 ]$ P5 {; j
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.$ U; [4 k6 {4 K% X& ?
" w7 U( e8 e. D, l+ l; B. `; a1 |Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
7 Q9 {. N$ j. r2 ?5 O* l1 hunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
- I* O( b3 ~9 v3 G: V1 Y( XUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze1 B& n! }2 D0 ], |, A
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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