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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ U7 f5 h% H, q4 m3 U
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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, ^0 T. l/ J/ D# rAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English) s8 s7 t# |$ F/ X5 @
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in. g, P2 Z6 O$ C& \* j7 y! v% L
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# ^6 T8 k5 i; O$ e2 H, d
the sivil servants jump with joy.5 G/ ~8 X8 Q$ l3 o8 ]
) Y" Y, m1 e# X5 PThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
( s* y0 `+ L1 }8 c2 s# T* x0 {: K% Xkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the9 H' `( }# B4 i: }/ h
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
: H- O- V8 n6 A- Y6 Q2 efotograf 20% shorter.! c) p& C& S( n/ n$ o3 x! b
3 x& F# i& M; ^/ T0 T; {; cIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
$ k- L+ ~: L p: a( O+ Hreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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, w" G9 }0 w8 t4 c1 ~: p4 F7 EAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is" T4 [6 d3 b. c6 J+ s- A h9 c
disgrasful and it should go away.
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4 M, M/ `: H/ ~$ C" o, S$ w2 |5 i; TBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with6 G! G) u' i9 s# H2 l2 q
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
8 c4 W5 f3 z2 m) b- }. r6 Rafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.% O( D2 e% _; z% ]7 x' h" A+ d
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
! H$ @( k6 C: Z8 r+ W' D7 @understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
- w6 B; E" @0 L1 m2 Q$ cUnd 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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