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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will ~$ C. ]" Q; F2 k# a. J2 K
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was e4 E3 R" U% T
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
1 L8 H0 ~/ V/ d8 D4 ^; Ospelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in. K6 m7 K' O: N0 ^" y) L7 e
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" [" d3 l& O, L3 O( d: B
the sivil servants jump with joy.+ N% Z# d7 n7 x' v" e& F: g/ s
" V1 Y1 [" ~9 `1 BThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up o4 I, Q4 L0 a* q3 V
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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2 n! K! _: L- \- z5 xThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
' f5 F2 Q* U7 \1 X0 utroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 j5 a2 ~ _0 o8 _1 d4 w! @. Q8 b5 K) s
fotograf 20% shorter.
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8 w( U0 D* O+ k8 P8 PIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to% T6 l$ l& G2 y
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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# j! e& p1 B( D/ e1 IGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always2 j. p- y5 T- P, f v+ ?
ben a deterent to akurate speling.: u5 V: Q8 s% D
( |# Q7 B! E# z" P* M( A. ^Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
- `+ v6 n! `5 M. ?8 |disgrasful and it should go away.9 D' P! w4 b" ^6 _: n' R
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with$ A3 L) E i4 F3 p/ E
"z" and "w" with "v".- h# @5 x' u, v+ x2 `2 B+ R
1 B+ L3 |1 L; Z7 `7 O: s5 n7 f( dDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and) i2 W' `3 `, L( x4 U
after 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# { _8 L3 H% ^% H; A
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
7 t1 E3 O+ Z% O3 ^ r- DUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze A* t8 z* o$ ]
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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