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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
+ F- f- x/ b9 R7 [0 t' f" h2 I; vbe 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
' w, {( ]# ^) h2 Lspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in1 L( ]* V4 C0 N% N. y
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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2 ^7 W6 z: R" W( cIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 e5 [7 Y" ^- k8 _
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
0 _) P5 V% l2 t! {) n7 B# p0 fkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& z3 ^4 P5 }, |, k9 `. M( e
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like% _6 O k9 o6 L$ `# ~ A, H% G
fotograf 20% shorter.& }3 N9 t; g1 j( ?( V
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
8 a" B! U- H. _( S# J/ y7 L C9 Q* Hreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.. X* y% f; A& D
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
' T- m& j- d2 ?7 ?ben a deterent to akurate speling.; y5 J: V$ z1 w
: Q$ d/ u. s; `0 i" h; AAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is# ^3 t. L L! v) J* @1 }8 F
disgrasful and it should go away.
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4 W! o5 S$ P! o: `By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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* X! @, f: E7 ?0 G( mDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ g, x& I: F1 mafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., s) {1 T+ e: @1 s
0 J* X3 C& b: H' V# \. rZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu# a" p9 D" ~8 C; u
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.0 x' g! e& ]6 d1 m/ U# p) Z
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 a @7 {; j0 _
forst plas.
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; d' {5 c4 P6 IIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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