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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
4 d% X" E* c* Y9 S/ [ q* K1 jbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was; D0 P4 g# J, c, H
the other possibility.
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+ h8 F0 Z6 V4 h5 U: NAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
T, O$ t0 Y% ?: L! p4 m& \# espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in' w( w* {4 U7 X: m2 m- q- B9 }
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- s: ]' b" r3 g9 N# }; a9 u: y1 R ] U
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
; Q4 K! y0 B1 `' w5 y6 k" F) ]the sivil servants jump with joy.# A0 @% R' W u" }! @# R. t$ P) P
4 J( n% ?' N9 v5 XThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: `$ X% M* h# ]8 z1 [' j8 N' l, m- u
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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0 g& ^0 O) F) b. D4 I5 CThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
% I. U1 u5 P! r6 C. dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like \3 _$ W2 M, `( L! B# F `0 `' y
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ G. W- g7 J1 p8 @; y2 ]reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.$ Z; W* n! I- p+ g9 @! o7 M9 h4 E
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 U; n( P3 B+ V7 F' yben a deterent to akurate speling.
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k. k4 g" j& g' I9 EAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
1 o+ G/ f0 h5 g1 Rdisgrasful and it should go away.: W# n7 y/ L0 J5 B3 ]( z u/ c
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# h3 x- d j1 I$ Q1 x; }% a
"z" and "w" with "v".- \- M/ s! z, B& L* H% g
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
( j( M( d; Q- H# p0 o9 lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.5 d3 u+ G4 F7 M0 c5 |' a$ ?' X
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
2 k4 y+ b9 B# J. p, punderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.2 n4 A! }# Q, l" w2 S
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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