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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 y. }0 K! v0 N: H
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# R! R. u( y$ A, H S4 k
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( p: z, F4 _8 D% s( r$ FAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English5 m! s# n" N5 T& L2 Y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in! K$ y C0 l* A7 N
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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' X4 K1 V; ?7 C% R. EIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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: s5 n. L+ N7 H7 M2 L1 TThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
/ m+ W# {" o9 Rkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., |- ]2 Q' B9 x' w/ A% V
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
5 A8 K8 A* z, P4 R- O# Jtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like( b+ b' T" n3 f5 |. D3 k
fotograf 20% shorter.9 a" f. m/ C& @' i6 o t- R
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 x" u1 Z! E+ U, N. v2 _7 t. x# ]reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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& j7 ]/ f5 \% x/ d& }2 ?. e4 T8 tGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
6 n; R/ L! U7 N$ E3 h+ Jben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
& _& h3 f; u" e0 |, _: wdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! u7 S I( @; ?7 j: i
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. c0 k1 r& f+ T0 d" l Oafter 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
F" w& P6 B( Z5 b$ Aunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.+ @4 L* E$ ~. s9 \& g
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze) ~, h; m$ D* S4 ]. p9 N
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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