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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 A# |1 r* a' ^! J/ x) s
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, R5 m' Y* k7 X$ y4 K* Z, B" W% _2 P" r
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- Z/ x# ^8 T; r m, m
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 \7 ~8 Z& i: j3 @
: E5 ^) P, |5 x$ M. R' D( K- c: \In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 V( ?5 o1 c. q+ y
the sivil servants jump with joy.# ~2 z: z; ^: g$ O
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up( C, ^& W6 [8 C0 q$ }
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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) @) L; M+ p$ G/ g, z' QThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the' @$ _6 W. v6 B& V. C& H! P
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) L {3 j; l4 {+ i9 O. {% C
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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6 w5 k1 R( H; k+ `Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% X/ J1 B d) z e% D4 Z& ^9 I/ u; ?
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is7 k! s9 S6 u! N g
disgrasful and it should go away.* b3 R# _: o1 C/ G
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% g! p* z" u n0 L6 P$ s4 b$ O
"z" and "w" with "v".
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8 a% S4 ^' l% LDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and9 j4 U/ f/ x+ P: [, R# y6 k
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.& ^& j- l: o) k% ]9 w* @2 g9 V# a
3 Y, w2 r |! e o9 HZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu; F1 S5 F- s& w! O* C- J
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
6 y' @0 D, J9 l+ B: f l6 C" i: oUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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. o0 E' e' K2 F1 H1 JIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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