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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
" \" w7 E* l6 @, hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was6 Y$ A5 U) h" ?2 |' h9 T D+ R) ^# }
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5 }; N0 p3 t# x: \" WAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English7 `# }: @ G" j* P9 y# W
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- W$ g: x8 K6 K- i
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% {9 T' X' O* T8 y0 a8 Y5 K- }
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make" l+ P7 Z2 C6 r! ~# B
the sivil servants jump with joy., N: V/ p- Z1 X# B1 r) l
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
2 X$ @1 r! y9 J1 Skonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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; w* l- h1 ^% ~$ e* k8 sThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the. {, t( y! ]; W2 O+ @" V" H# @9 x! X
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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9 @& S. q5 F2 N: |- h5 pIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
2 h" ?% Y" l5 g, m3 F/ ereach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible., ^; g- y5 q8 r! G/ e9 P
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
% A5 ^$ c7 b) B* Xben a deterent to akurate speling.
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3 {% T9 V! K5 Z$ q0 B0 m5 VAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
% E; Z Y- m; e4 C6 vdisgrasful and it should go away.
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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
- I$ Q1 Z5 L( f7 q+ j( a6 B# oafter 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 `% W& N# e( u* ?" L
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.5 o3 E7 K- M* E, K9 d: }% k; u
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze$ N3 [8 ~& q, P$ t# T
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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