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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will& C' a7 @+ y) M! G g( L/ r
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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9 e8 k; z9 q1 yAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
! Q! w: }- s3 O: U9 V/ Yspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in5 R6 y" k! D1 p3 M# G a' f- n8 \0 I
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." X- v* m. g# z3 n
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
9 b5 U$ o" x, [2 Hthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up& f; G( E# E% ^
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ O( l1 Y/ l6 I) w7 D
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
2 B( I3 d- C; r" V" G7 }* @troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like6 H0 I3 S$ A+ d
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to, [' j+ R9 n# ^3 Y# |$ G
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.7 g( G7 J1 |5 Z% h N; U
3 h8 S( v4 X e" m( q! z' UGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
6 t( u1 w# c) j6 ?. Pben a deterent to akurate speling.
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' m' s3 X0 Y) a/ n) QAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is) V/ T1 X8 ]" L0 {7 X
disgrasful and it should go away.
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3 \ K; l8 w) iBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with5 R( b4 p3 t8 J
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
1 j/ A! Z1 r% F: Vafter 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
7 p; D8 t2 q% G5 d. u$ v2 |0 Sunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.( E; h- \; w% P6 o0 J9 l( h( U
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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2 T2 ^- W$ j( ~5 S8 N4 P1 yIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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