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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
9 N+ K6 Q4 y6 I" y* ~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
: {! \; m+ p* c* R8 O. q6 rspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 o# _" V" T- k
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
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
& [% u& a1 O, c. ?; L9 n, I; nkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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5 V) L# Q0 U- r4 L$ |There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
& e2 @7 X( k G$ V' U' Utroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! n5 L- J6 `" L2 p. h4 w
fotograf 20% shorter.
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' B" g' P" z% H2 m5 q% D0 F: nIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
; f# a: U. P* e% y+ O- Dreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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% y( ^9 _9 q5 G. jGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* g& H: t" Y! C
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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: U; o' F v9 G% E( S4 FAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
; I; l% v5 F7 S$ Z3 ^disgrasful and it should go away.
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# J" t* f, _# E0 C0 A) c) YBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( D( k7 @+ m) C
"z" and "w" with "v".5 D' N `1 f3 B
4 ~% d( t( m9 mDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
+ p- ~ C) S6 e# K: Kafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl." |3 a# Z w' G$ n# ~) P- X
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
8 M0 _6 ]. E! ^ b/ Runderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ s; r( T8 b! E& d0 \$ G+ CUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze0 s0 e7 O5 S. o4 Z# _
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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