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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ Z' O: G O% v2 Qbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was0 U1 ?9 ]; t6 V2 _+ j) ^5 I
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English$ \ d( V& X+ R7 |' f# V" U
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in9 E2 z0 l( V6 s. k; q, v- S* j3 O
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
) m6 _- `+ T2 D2 L' T/ bthe sivil servants jump with joy.# O/ m1 y1 [4 D: }/ C/ t$ K6 t/ U
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
1 q" w- v" E: [3 ]$ h- kkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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. Y# e6 F @$ W* \7 QThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
6 T' C4 D+ ~: q3 ]7 u3 C' Dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like) o; C1 }) @1 D
fotograf 20% shorter.* k( n" E: K! V/ W7 Y
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to+ t* z" C( u" x9 D
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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; {0 _+ Q, \7 x6 u FGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
9 _" ^/ C2 Q# q7 ^ Y5 m- Oben a deterent to akurate speling.
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3 C& y) d# d( O: ~0 tAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
% q# B: R1 ]6 D7 S; n H* l+ wdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with4 `: d% I% z2 ]2 B7 O2 m; S
"z" and "w" with "v". f# ~, E8 V) o [' m1 F
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 n/ m" V4 I+ P1 n2 @* Iafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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$ i: ]% s9 @3 x0 ?. vZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
+ O2 N* `4 H, s8 eunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru./ C7 F5 [1 G% c( v/ X3 O* V
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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