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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ f: D& ?2 T0 Z' o6 `* Sbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was/ g2 k* |. t$ ~5 {# a2 x' U% \) \
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English- z& p1 a* f# a& F% f8 V4 ~ k
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in! s/ A; F k8 h: e' ~1 A# m9 k' Z z
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".8 T5 u5 {3 z- V- D
5 h( V( b- W! n) e3 [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/ v9 S1 s2 y) F2 i2 W7 Z1 X& t, Z- h
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.% C G" B6 r6 J
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the( d3 p6 L9 E9 o9 G8 q; R
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like4 q& {6 M0 K7 U
fotograf 20% shorter.
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4 r& j( Z3 w! P- x1 ~3 m' v. _' ~In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
5 r2 y& ?" @* X( u* @2 Wreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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2 i/ A3 E9 ?4 n3 n hGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always2 \0 G. q/ {5 u
ben a deterent to akurate speling." J" N3 M3 C5 [0 D7 E& l
/ A+ S- n0 `* e7 k; }6 [Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
8 S. r. U. F4 F- Q2 j1 Bdisgrasful and it should go away.4 J, d5 M# U( N; U! {! ~
" e2 }$ u2 U, J( bBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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' R3 N/ D& R' z0 {! Z5 }During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and$ T, x. q) a) P( {7 T
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
' G+ B$ O( Y) kunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% h$ `* R3 W o6 o o
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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9 `4 g+ t4 D3 |* J2 f) AIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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