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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will* Y1 U2 M: b( Z3 A9 b" p7 C
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was/ r8 J q2 k/ R. G) Y6 w
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English6 L- U& ^: V" X; `5 Y. ]
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in1 N' R- m* P/ i5 a
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".0 P- X! C2 ^2 j* s1 b, D
$ J: M" p6 ?* p7 j% w& _& S2 U' P5 lIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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4 h" O, `( k% l0 f+ _9 WThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
) u" |1 B6 w" E8 Akonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ }$ q% q$ b$ K7 m7 g; y* f' O
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6 A# H/ _3 [1 s7 c1 v* b4 KThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
J$ o0 q, U: Otroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
/ m0 Y) N! i& @4 ]: B3 M. \) yfotograf 20% shorter.
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7 }5 o( L' A/ C: A9 k# OIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
8 y) L5 f- @$ ?$ Ureach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
( H6 G- G: ]5 R! Y1 _4 pben a deterent to akurate speling.% L8 j) H) Q( j5 H, M2 J; {, ^
( l) b- G% v; I9 n9 z) X8 SAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
3 [# [4 q' H! ^/ Rdisgrasful and it should go away., K. ` h/ P; F7 a
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
4 {1 g7 C6 z% k, p6 ~0 X"z" and "w" with "v".
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5 E1 W* a# W. m; s/ z; g4 \ ?During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and! C% F. e9 K ?1 i H% 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- u# m# M# Q* I5 @4 f
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
3 K9 Z b4 p7 E6 m! l3 hUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze* j" Y) q) u [5 M
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: q/ I" m5 ?" B' T/ c. r# VIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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