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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will% Q' U6 [- C9 H! g2 U u; I- J
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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, l" F: D9 U/ R; QAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
C" f$ j3 h( D2 |spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& R3 Z% G3 ? j2 y+ i- f2 Bplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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+ ?# `$ s' _" y# }! [1 n7 P# C3 V* IIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
- j; u% u x% W+ w s- O; ]the sivil servants jump with joy.
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( ?3 g. X" b4 B* Y p* N& g7 b/ SThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
5 j9 g, s* h" R0 U0 ?! mkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 B/ K7 Z5 a' h" r2 ntroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like7 j5 f+ E! u; ]6 p g- k* T
fotograf 20% shorter.
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' R% l1 W+ w C+ h! n7 ~* CIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
% J8 o: C' W* V! A6 A2 ^reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.! q& |; u0 G: v- u1 V. Z
6 u: I: d* U! l. `# V% HGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
$ O, N* H/ R- g5 [ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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6 O4 B0 c/ w4 g* I8 q% NAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is% N% [" d; u9 B$ x* z ?) {
disgrasful and it should go away.
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9 A. S6 G9 D) ~% TBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with3 e) t! _8 i* }, p) i
"z" and "w" with "v".
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( j9 V A+ `3 j# VDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and( J: w% ]+ D) e8 J. m/ b
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. D) b8 b$ q1 q: V$ ~
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
& c/ K. d) D, g8 b. B' l7 lUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze# q. V- m$ r$ p6 E
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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