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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will+ A" Q! e* B0 O- ^
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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# G! x# D. z* |$ A9 y( ~As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English7 ^& C9 j; \4 M# T' `2 g
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
6 M; U5 I: c" Y1 {- b' Gplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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' B4 [* x+ s7 r4 r8 l- b SIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
9 R8 D i3 k! y! P) j8 C' O0 o3 wthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up( U- j9 X' b4 y$ E
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
5 C! a9 n. i. S- U* ^troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
8 ?8 ?8 C2 t1 Y( X" Q* F9 vfotograf 20% shorter.
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; i2 s0 K, G/ O! z+ \In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' P8 H5 @/ h9 Preach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.$ |+ A) c$ a# v3 _
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is& P6 |9 m$ _" l( t( i9 h/ ^) z; o
disgrasful and it should go away.
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" i# _2 Z. o- X- `" \) s/ ~By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with j9 q( F% C. b2 |
"z" and "w" with "v".6 E4 r- M% g* t2 D* e0 U
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
2 G8 m& ^+ U( Q* N- Qafter 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
" q( Y8 e& E' I. munderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.7 a8 u5 C1 z6 `- E. M5 x% ?% X% b
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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