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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will; n9 Y1 @% l3 u4 h6 A) Q9 X- O
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; A" ^) u; z7 i( W6 G Z
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" L, y! [9 `) i/ w( G3 S- B5 m+ A
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".9 G. Z6 Z+ n9 b$ ^$ z. V
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! Z0 ?1 F! d k+ v/ u
the sivil servants jump with joy.+ \# f" ^6 X; V6 F& y: P/ |- B$ C
p, Y, u7 g: ^+ \& ?/ F! sThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up, }: `5 s- A M, o8 K- m5 x) M
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.& D# m( D {8 L g
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2 L L! l3 i o3 A+ VThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# O/ d; }+ D# @' R
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
9 c v0 }6 A% X1 m% e% A% f% ~fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to% H ` O; e _/ A+ j7 c& J
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always( R, v. t$ k' X- E1 T' \
ben a deterent to akurate speling.! a! I6 t4 ?4 u! m9 Y' V
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is' G" @, s" r/ Q4 ?- f! ^6 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
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: L5 j7 y9 a; A8 F% z. m0 E4 YDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and& [* V* u, v1 V+ N5 S. O. }
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.$ \- B. }( X/ \ ~
r8 p1 D+ c9 U9 Q" B }Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu6 b& J7 g3 N0 w, k' y
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.. v0 Z* V4 [5 |' N5 X) ?) 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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