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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
+ \$ Q; s8 { F X+ k; Dbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 u1 i* f9 u0 T/ v
the other possibility.
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/ _; @. s3 o2 B- g9 C9 {: L0 B$ G Y: nAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
# M- U- Z3 e$ S8 E3 e) qspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
7 {2 I5 Z% V6 \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; j" M- o; l; j: ?5 o
the sivil servants jump with joy." e- P" Y- d. u6 g9 e
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
: W- F$ J* R: |- @konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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- A6 V. L% e6 Y! c2 U) r+ EThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
! Z0 j. i- G9 m# d ~5 }1 x# B! ftroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like, }5 |/ T/ b0 P+ U& G8 R
fotograf 20% shorter.2 e7 u4 E, T5 j1 T" I
3 ~8 N2 [3 P% ]In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
! ~/ G% h( ]9 k. Ureach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always' _) R% G0 L7 H J; I. F- l7 C
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is5 C! f" K: n( ^/ j
disgrasful and it should go away., H7 A3 W$ c) ?/ B
7 [9 r- T1 U# Q5 z4 K) ]* FBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
+ @3 [1 J; [" x( y# z1 E- e* k& J"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: l0 C9 j0 Z/ k; t3 J
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
k: v6 H$ N G7 ^/ o5 E6 B. uunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 Q6 g0 O+ j: t! d
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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/ X) B4 z% u" w, CIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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