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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
7 A5 X4 q8 I' o2 k. ?be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
3 Z# r/ e( ^; A3 W, X- ]the other possibility.1 l1 {, w5 v/ _7 ]. g
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
. f; P0 a, m; m, v; M6 ?spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in0 A- i, G$ N3 l4 n
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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3 W$ P" X, R% J$ i2 p, `3 f4 h, uThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up4 y2 e6 K" |, k$ x4 Z: x
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.1 R& X7 }: ~1 T1 J1 [$ q6 d
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
3 A k0 n- u: N0 g/ T4 F5 I( utroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
% y+ v+ x5 ?% F) M. R7 l9 s0 y8 mfotograf 20% shorter./ o. w8 W6 d. x% T5 |
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 Z0 m, q! p. C4 nreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.; {- [2 `5 U- P! O
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 V0 A- O) T, q& Lben a deterent to akurate speling.0 B0 { O# ?: f
, r! l; b; S/ UAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is4 t) q J' i t' G2 Y% Z+ t
disgrasful and it should go away.
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$ |5 x; y. ^& c0 P: PBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* U$ D. o4 U. P3 L; Y9 s4 P* E: _) v$ xafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.* s5 s% k& S$ {
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu+ Q1 Q9 H u7 G% R" y3 W
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% b" d2 ^, `# 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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