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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
" l* G; I# ]1 I! Rbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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& a, L# y, k! w; W5 ZAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
4 ~3 ]9 q- g2 N6 B; xspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in* E6 v) Y. z' _, T
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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! H' _! R- j W- |In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make7 G' `& I [1 _* ]3 p9 v
the sivil servants jump with joy.2 F7 P: K7 b# K/ N
; L7 j# f5 a& n: M1 LThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up* B; D! o' X5 m: X' Z+ t
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the2 o2 k: C& R# R2 ]' H( H
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like9 g2 M4 w( m1 Q' R2 a
fotograf 20% shorter.4 j, {8 [3 Y$ z/ I, j0 m3 D4 D
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. c& H* \5 k' b. X) ^3 \3 x7 K# n) e2 Z
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. R* A+ Q, p5 X q& u5 \. t/ A
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 F) B0 Q- A: H& |$ k2 _
ben a deterent to akurate speling.- K- H [0 M* Y- F7 E) s5 m: P$ j
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is8 O! c W2 D. x' _3 N4 G1 E
disgrasful and it should go away.% I7 S" _% r2 w; Z; @
2 y, u! S. o4 o8 b. {By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( m6 j7 R4 e0 \. t
"z" and "w" with "v".3 z# R: U8 \& v7 H
% g' y( d5 i( e5 K% K+ \' hDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
" P6 p Y, H7 v3 u) uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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9 G! x# u9 r! z& K: p9 y# l. uZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu1 X8 k/ ]: Q! i* k( i
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% }0 Z9 }& I, Q4 N* t
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze0 J$ G5 j) D: [8 O3 I9 f! A
forst plas.
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% y) {8 `0 [9 v- o. f$ l3 eIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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