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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will) w/ v4 R8 d1 ^$ {/ k1 g8 w/ v
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English* `9 d3 R5 |( J9 ~8 D% o6 _" ]
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
: M, f& g& _+ e; Z8 P7 xplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
+ f+ q6 P, x; f5 h; _the sivil servants jump with joy.
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9 x; Y% S+ u1 H/ ?4 N# dThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ M5 P4 w$ L2 h% B' ^1 f$ `1 Q
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.4 Z) _) \1 K6 Q: g+ E: p
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& @9 n9 r4 J# k! l/ u- J+ Z& @6 x' gThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
+ z4 U1 ^1 Z; L8 V" {" h4 Qtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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7 | b: j; e% |0 A7 PIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to8 W c. _# ~; \* {, v8 o( R
reach 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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/ B* s- U# z8 g3 u+ n( y; aAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
6 U' \1 D3 M9 pdisgrasful and it should go away.+ h" K4 ]* o# C% n; l0 N$ D! z
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with6 ]4 p: C* ]( Y! W( c
"z" and "w" with "v".
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) X1 I% w5 I7 A+ z9 P9 m8 fDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
8 [0 ^5 B1 z* `/ K& ~4 oafter 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 tu5 {& G/ m9 U! [+ G8 v6 G( z+ l
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
: T2 ` N7 b( B+ M1 g XUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze @/ Q/ F$ ?3 E6 A& A# E
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! [( ~% q" J# L8 QIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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