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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
# l8 q% h1 x; p4 ]: m0 H; _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 English0 H' m" W; R* q Z* V1 [! r# d% |8 H( j
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ H2 f7 b3 y2 Z
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".$ B' s, g/ P5 B( `6 `$ Y
- w, U0 W8 z3 sIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make) n7 [( f7 X& t
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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7 g3 i* h4 J2 ]. S1 d# tThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
4 C9 G5 ^' q6 x4 Q' lkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.4 j+ d3 d3 |1 q! x( P. f. ~
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2 {' @/ ~( }( [3 g. o# vThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, e( u5 m% d+ |8 C
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like" [8 O/ E/ b9 a3 e
fotograf 20% shorter.) H+ _5 v8 B7 w1 [9 g% Z: |
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to- d* U5 x- V. _4 R" i
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always. z: p R- L7 S; V+ J
ben a deterent to akurate speling.4 `! q, c! t, w
5 d9 u" u7 C+ P0 T, iAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is4 {5 h7 Z% i% w1 f
disgrasful and it should go away.8 C. M g: G4 I6 A* U
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with1 d+ V8 k; V/ r# \, V0 U" X3 n+ n
"z" and "w" with "v".
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7 ?; P: ?" k9 x* F1 tDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
% m5 K1 e/ g8 j7 q3 L7 J Zafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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9 S, _) F; T3 dZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: c9 ^1 D% y/ B
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.: n- w6 n- K- {) F' G+ ?: W5 k w
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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$ N8 e( j: }3 u' v& v" \If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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