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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
+ K# E: b0 S% `3 {: Fbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was! v- W% k/ g; a
the other possibility.
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4 y0 p1 P0 x ~4 H% hAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English+ t7 b1 S2 K: H1 a$ b) o! O) {( K
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
0 a% V5 r# B$ r, eplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
3 m1 G9 y9 `% P' l& S( B" N5 athe sivil servants jump with joy.
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2 L* f. O. ]% [* z8 q3 vThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up' p* | |2 ~8 N3 [/ K, M
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.- E8 u+ ^7 N4 J8 u/ G" W
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 J: C) r& ]" c1 z0 ~# v2 ^2 l3 Atroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like6 p' Y8 F; ^: }
fotograf 20% shorter.# ~1 E5 _/ n! ~" Y8 N1 Q, J
$ ?' f0 B' F3 T( ?In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
" ?' D) D; n0 F* }- V$ D- B/ N( ~% n- hreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 W7 Z8 a( O# F; G1 U- S l4 t
ben a deterent to akurate speling." ^( e4 V4 W$ E; V+ N' h9 L
* s4 d* t$ J e2 O! T4 _* UAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
6 n8 d* P9 z6 e9 _5 fdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
6 A. s6 X$ _3 a) ["z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
( q" J4 d7 f% k# q! d5 ]5 Wafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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& w" d7 \( [$ V, R$ v& E9 Q0 w; P/ GZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu( U, E. i; p; L/ g+ z% w
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 |+ ?1 j' N- y- [! O4 kUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze) l) {) P# \4 v6 H V6 y; w3 O
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3 f+ m. d. h, @5 F8 ~If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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