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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will6 E8 B" d5 D( e. q# M
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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) g3 [4 G* O% Y, IAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
1 y2 L3 [6 |+ S* jspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
" \4 L, _" m# l4 s) E9 Fplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
6 D, S9 L, [; c8 I9 rthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up1 T& F. p" c! N3 b6 j5 R' L/ G6 V
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.. k4 D4 W5 P0 r7 ^7 S! P* K: e+ U
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
% `0 i: j& t3 qtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
" }) |# F4 b7 B: n* xfotograf 20% shorter.$ G4 R# ]. n( F
9 Q& E, { M" d9 uIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
2 F& ^9 P) E7 k' f& [ N# M& Xreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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$ Z" N( e6 E' P5 D- ?9 NGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& y9 b# x. k! h: ?
ben a deterent to akurate speling./ a/ o3 C* n: L" V5 S
/ ^% D6 j3 M- F4 W7 ~6 ]4 PAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is- ?: K5 b, r! K; h7 R0 J
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with; V* g9 O2 V$ I6 I
"z" and "w" with "v".+ _( x2 R1 x* k2 v; \5 O/ N+ K
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and$ T c* _* h+ ^/ b/ o* O* K! r
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl." `/ D( d0 m j `( M) a/ z
- n0 D/ {$ k$ _/ ZZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu" I& _& ]6 T- E* s& \
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
& o. m3 z& f- SUnd 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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