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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will1 C: ?" y, p' q/ e0 C+ P
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! e$ y( U6 J0 {/ t
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in1 H/ N( z( l7 f; \
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! X3 a% F. k' r: ]
the sivil servants jump with joy.8 S; y; ^# g. B' n( R8 p
1 C/ c, f# r/ g, g8 OThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up4 j; T; a2 ]! u$ g4 H
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.) k* J2 h6 _6 w# _: D: ?" E
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the; x* S1 E/ b9 V4 V$ p, X
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like, S9 R* t. z+ B8 P8 n% |% I; W4 ~
fotograf 20% shorter.- x+ h" Y0 z/ K7 X W) S
( A, n/ K' z4 ZIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to- m& l- d; V& J# c* Z" T' w
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: \/ X7 t2 g* k# Y' p- f' u
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always7 j; Q; `) D' N. D3 j& c0 I
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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3 S& s- v9 T6 |4 K: v% sAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 X# y/ g: D: V
disgrasful and it should go away.6 o9 ]( X7 d% Z
; O( w' L; w P5 ]5 XBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
" \6 G1 b; q6 n: b"z" and "w" with "v".
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, V$ R* @# }; `8 f5 TDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and/ Q; b4 M8 K) S! }0 r8 n
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
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* e6 P6 y/ |) ZUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze! w" L8 h9 ]4 F, b# l4 Z" F( {
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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