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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will& W% C! R( _1 V' ]0 y# d+ S! U
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 English
: W( @5 i+ v% ]6 H3 o9 G. yspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
: }% z4 r, D9 hplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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6 U6 a! P9 v4 ?; q1 ^* SIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
9 y; A7 \3 T. }; Pthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up7 Y* W5 G. _1 I% }0 i ^8 g! X
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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3 t+ K3 K. E* n7 ^There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
$ m/ j/ Z7 L" K# c. e; x$ Y6 ntroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
; w9 F# q6 ~; F' wfotograf 20% shorter.2 J; D/ e6 ?8 B% D2 H
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
5 Z' p( i+ R# U2 b/ G1 k: Y+ A& ^reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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T; Y' O8 A$ wGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always8 C$ k* \0 i/ }; b6 q
ben a deterent to akurate speling. R" z V( m9 w2 @0 a7 f
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
7 l5 v6 q6 k9 L6 u/ ldisgrasful and it should go away.
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! P; e6 q+ x' d/ i w+ JBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with0 [3 @5 q" b& ^- ~' w1 X
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
5 l. [: N' N; b. ^8 x) J5 [9 d6 \4 n* k, Vafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 X4 F5 n* p9 h; b
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
) E/ Q) r) Q4 T& G) |& M1 @6 aunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. c. v5 r% r$ G, ]; Y/ s* x% o
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 j. F% ^4 @' E$ X
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' U0 O7 w9 {7 T. t' R& @If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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