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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
# U! _1 ]# `" s0 g. Q- zbe 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 English9 n# T0 L3 ?* g
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in' X1 O0 ^- X# B4 D. E% Q
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* \2 l6 l# R- |7 w( O
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up8 Y! ^" a0 f" v/ R5 j+ i
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ K2 Y. h5 U/ V _- Itroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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+ w+ R2 z) e( e2 o, E0 [* NIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
2 y0 y Y! ?2 K1 ~reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.4 ^# f8 L: d* b+ N0 Q
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always8 Y& A3 g1 Z) Z
ben a deterent to akurate speling.- I% q9 N, J% g, J, d
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
) t8 w( K7 O4 Q8 y+ l+ Fdisgrasful and it should go away.; @2 R. m7 `' S* U
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with* V- j# D1 c4 e+ P6 S" h
"z" and "w" with "v".8 ?) t6 H, t, R8 j" k
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* W* m, g1 G4 P; Dafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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; z$ X* ~ Y! a/ OZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
+ @/ O8 C% m) b2 B# e' o W) Y) ]understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.. n% p1 O1 v, L/ o8 y
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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