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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
( Y4 P$ ?1 a! v$ X3 |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
3 J+ t0 ~3 K8 [7 H1 jspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
7 m' f3 K6 d! c+ r, ]# B/ i. _plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".) R: [% s4 S4 P# s" K) e% z
" U' m& {1 H8 f+ _ N) ~8 ]' XIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 R( Y: F5 d) ^2 s _2 P1 Z4 K! X
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
# R$ B+ b9 G' Y% m/ }" E0 ^konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.. W$ y2 o2 w V. j0 `
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
. b, C- P, k5 @troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
6 @, g: W2 w F Ffotograf 20% shorter.
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% f0 B2 h! K1 d2 X3 JIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
: s- \' o$ H. K2 G% e+ J+ v9 breach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.( ]. z, R8 Z' ^' y- `3 _4 |1 h
6 Z. c" K+ V5 J! k. yGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always1 E: }" Z& m" V2 V) L5 N; \' \
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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, e3 u$ z8 m+ y, s9 BAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is. A& {. E- C% O9 G. j5 p
disgrasful and it should go away.) }9 I- x- P. K" T
+ t( Y6 O4 u2 F) Q1 M* E, [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"and2 w9 |5 g' t5 ~" ]) N
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
0 ]6 x' c+ x. _. J0 P! f+ @4 E* \; Zunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
% H# G9 F P$ @Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze( p9 ~. k( p) L+ Y
forst plas.
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# V8 w/ d% }) q/ cIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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