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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will+ E9 [6 |/ ]3 i6 k3 r: u
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
% m+ ]; K( v: F* q! [9 B Mspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in5 M* K) z% C% c3 z3 r7 e7 v% b( h0 }
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
C. ?. ]$ m1 {' _, ^/ f2 s6 Akonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ T# C2 o: [6 I6 r, p
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5 \* }$ N* P% y* f" g. L% i/ }There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the q2 W- f3 E$ g9 j. n! [) _* ]3 c" W
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like$ J6 J& m2 @2 U$ F4 n7 v S
fotograf 20% shorter.
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- J# E' z, R! U' Q$ I2 HIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to4 `3 H/ w& }. _4 F8 v3 w( p) N% j5 p
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. b" a( O2 I* `8 N* e
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always8 I4 U9 H+ N! }& n/ ?- ^; |9 d' t* K
ben a deterent to akurate speling.$ [4 F. o2 |1 x! E& I8 F# n
3 B1 }1 @# t2 ?Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' O# h4 P1 Y @4 n8 Y$ rdisgrasful and it should go away.5 @+ Y( h( i! q
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with) I( b5 @! N" f7 h$ Y
"z" and "w" with "v".. `: N6 D- \% s
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) G3 R1 E( G: f; V4 d! ?after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.5 H! x* }9 q% n c/ w
2 v$ k. S0 n9 Q" v$ _Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu5 K2 q. b3 u9 U5 H& P8 q
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
! } c+ U/ p9 B7 t3 b) yUnd 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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