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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
* u2 ]$ o. C. V D+ abe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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3 i b9 z+ o& O+ PAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
6 O3 m' P8 l5 G# Espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* q4 K$ T% \* B+ B. `3 qplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
/ d0 a. _7 \3 tthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
7 g5 ?! I7 y5 n4 b- L Zkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
# N; j! ? w+ A. S( D% Q' xtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like% g& F3 U/ g, Y$ G+ L$ y
fotograf 20% shorter.7 H" n' C" D2 G9 ~
/ `9 m! ^: O4 x3 q5 \; j9 EIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to! {4 W5 S# o# A8 d! T9 q9 J
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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# T+ `, K5 Q; {; n h6 } ~3 |Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
+ J }# d) f/ m' u% Z1 wben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is$ S; d# N$ \( P) c5 b; H
disgrasful and it should go away." s. `8 V/ R1 x9 R2 @, q# n$ r( ^
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with) C- d$ N/ @3 W. [2 m3 T# |
"z" and "w" with "v".
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" ^6 U4 N6 D0 w' V3 w4 A6 D& {/ EDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and1 d8 f! R" }( u( [ j5 q
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.2 v. f" l! M) \/ E1 q
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
1 s& O1 Z1 V6 e5 y, ~+ Q3 Nunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
% i( [ }6 W* K# @* }: lUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 Y$ L% E5 w0 |5 _, a n: W
forst plas.
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' j$ I2 B8 t) X7 P( P+ bIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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