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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will0 K' p. q' m8 T
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
. M; ?: G7 U9 p8 `& s" ` S) Xspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 |* n1 r1 {" P4 S: @! n
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% D/ l5 g5 F) i b8 X5 ?
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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' r; [$ P; [& y! [5 _The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ K3 w) A& ^; [2 ~, ?6 _% wkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ n+ v0 D' a" f- s
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; v) w0 M- p+ l, Otroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
. g+ P/ R4 W9 Jfotograf 20% shorter.
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8 O2 J! K5 d9 |! @In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to: r3 h! K C3 N& v2 h0 [3 Q. r2 e: ?
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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# X8 m9 l! X! i5 qAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is4 V0 [7 i, m n9 |0 n4 m
disgrasful and it should go away.
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) }: K/ y0 P0 a; \7 @1 K, Q3 ABy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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9 V& t9 Q) p$ m1 q+ c+ mDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: s7 C$ a9 I ^
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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) X1 |, u @( X4 bZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
- W o. a5 h4 D# i/ u# M' Ounderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
5 p9 Q* G: _. i& a- X& b: |Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze1 W0 r% D. x( C. K
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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