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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
8 W& V- J$ Q" U+ x# J+ d0 I. T2 Xbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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+ R$ `# w8 C* F" y+ q" {' kAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
( M$ \; ?# E! m: `8 |$ K( E/ Aspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 [/ `$ C4 x1 X, I
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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! `/ H% J! v& n$ h' C% TIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make" V) |# o6 [* ]/ h0 n: L
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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o+ F3 C Z, C6 d! l- K- KThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
+ x/ K+ @! K. d7 dkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* j2 H" C) F% z; J+ q% O t) k
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the% |. W, _; U, j# H" k' z! X
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like P! `9 K1 `1 j* j, Y8 z2 U
fotograf 20% shorter.9 ]9 k% N2 K/ x8 ?
1 \- A& ]& o8 P% m4 b+ WIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
2 F3 ^& {7 q! z& d( k5 {0 w) Xreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.. k2 \& J& [' ]( {( G
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
+ e* e) n9 T& s6 e2 d$ _ xben a deterent to akurate speling.+ r! z! i) Z6 E; a# R* |/ ? z5 O5 G& w
- I3 R3 \" v0 s" qAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is# ?4 @7 D H, E6 d0 ?5 Z0 \
disgrasful and it should go away.) \0 w5 s, z% D9 W
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with0 `8 W0 n# G5 X0 d- T* n( o
"z" and "w" with "v".3 A$ j" Y6 f. d* u; a( }
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and- z9 d& a4 \- t0 R
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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6 U! G5 D% B+ UZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
1 Y) s5 Z( Y, I+ a' Wunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.* v; D, Z) a. s1 S" r8 N
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze( ]0 U( y% v: A4 p/ n8 H
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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