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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
1 o$ o9 D- A8 `; a" \. @be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# q9 \: ~# j! h8 q' U
the other possibility.
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6 e5 J/ k7 u% q6 |$ t! G: A ]As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English5 W! T& K3 I' Q5 h h
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 v. W% [1 f* a0 }
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." N% o$ _4 {# ?# v7 h
8 y. j% x8 V& N+ JIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make, ~& d! I& q9 M: E1 y3 r' Q
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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( {6 t- O! M& ZThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
! x1 i) `0 p- \( H Rkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the$ Q9 T( F) l# c( B5 O3 Y( m
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
& u% s9 r' v- G1 C0 x- g( Breach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.% e% k* x# _6 D v, _) B# X
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# @8 W( u3 V9 ?' M" {5 n2 m* G1 f! y
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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: B$ ]- \4 S) ?2 }( l- KAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
6 D) w- i9 ]% ?. Q$ Odisgrasful and it should go away.
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% W K3 w% y9 IBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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) {1 K, t* N- s; e# ZDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and! y0 l" Z/ m2 Q b& g o5 v) [
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
7 G3 w" X: d/ q% u9 K7 Funderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.) Q m3 Y3 l. L. A" D" W. U0 U
Und 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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