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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will+ _! k; J9 ]) g; `
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was% }' d% w9 w' x7 b" p4 Y% J
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
* N" O) c3 s% O; T; S6 yspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
! R% z/ C4 n/ uplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 r8 q7 Z9 N( M' J3 }7 }8 o+ Y
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
. m2 K) Q* z5 o ]5 Okonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: S2 Y* a3 E& y9 N# _
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5 A5 \- O- m3 {* p# QThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the/ @% ]1 X. t8 l6 B
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to: f. \1 S8 `7 E1 E9 j$ t3 q3 C
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.1 A8 \. I9 W7 U+ J9 m
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always, d6 S r' Q& m8 L' j1 I
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is- y1 `* D8 V5 @
disgrasful and it should go away.+ g |5 @2 e; E3 R- E: P
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and$ S" m1 T; j4 G! u, E
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
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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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