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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
# V$ v3 z! \8 t) D; bbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was- R' ]3 N _2 y
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
" _; P# M# g O2 m% qspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
6 O4 X( }( i8 U" a* h6 Oplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." n; p2 K1 r! a
; f" E6 [9 ?, [* P' v; d* EIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make @- G) _. `" T7 q; |: o& A* y
the sivil servants jump with joy.8 B: d- G$ W, T
6 {$ h! E; y3 l: B, }The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up. j( f0 x+ ?0 x! d& K' q
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.. S8 J3 j6 u; F2 S" y& _% y. k
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# _7 e7 v! M/ Y4 g
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; R9 [# t& d0 t7 H0 P6 z
fotograf 20% shorter., [/ N/ N$ x" y V
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to/ d8 x* p1 w, ]! j* ^# T
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 d3 S# ^4 D- B. D' @( L
0 j( Y' @9 ^4 R! W; E; p! c1 v& QGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
6 G; G C6 H5 H& p3 Y$ Qben a deterent to akurate speling.
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, M ^- O3 H+ y8 t1 _Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is9 U* I# I% |- k9 f, `) g8 `' \
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# W# z7 Y# F6 d B& u& v& [, ?' x6 N
"z" and "w" with "v".- N3 ]" ], n3 f- f' v# b% w
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and/ x) i1 C8 v5 |( @
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
5 |- I1 h a% Z- Z6 ~5 Lunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
: S; b" e7 n. L- X' W/ TUnd 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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