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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
0 k3 y; h+ k2 @( l* K6 o( Z! Gbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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% \' T( K; R. I6 q, _As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English/ {9 i& u- x9 P- t6 \8 j0 b
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 G+ s- N) O% P; ?
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 |8 x+ A8 Z. m, C& m
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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% W5 E K/ b4 C, VThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
4 m, ]( p# \* X' Rkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.5 H$ O+ J. N( J) p) n
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s% ?, F, B* I; EThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
y0 `7 l' D3 ?$ z, dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; O$ ?$ X& {6 Q! c
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to0 C8 c5 m, B z7 I! T3 W
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.3 m3 H; U; v' O6 b; K
; H3 q7 V' t0 K) L- e0 Z4 c' hGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
8 q' Z5 [2 S: l; Hben a deterent to akurate speling.
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3 u6 Q) ~8 m! KAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is, D. h2 J: R4 k4 T9 @4 Q
disgrasful and it should go away.
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; u$ z* ?/ w5 z: O# F1 @+ ?* wBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# d' A& j! G9 a; M3 ^
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 ]2 s5 P7 v; f% S3 q. o! lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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8 D: s" s! Y& g V A1 V: \5 S TZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu) G* s. X/ h Z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.1 q" U$ {4 o6 R. v& E5 C* b
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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; O8 n9 T$ [1 j5 _If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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