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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ z" ?+ g) _9 H8 k' J4 F5 M; X
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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! d# _! a5 `# UAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English" C4 K0 x6 I; `8 X) b
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
7 ~7 R. e& N' B+ A Z) Iplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".. ?- P1 h3 R! d
% [8 a) N6 M$ b- p5 @In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
b" X$ W. T; u0 t( X! r" i4 T: Qthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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/ S/ |% x P- d tThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up6 f3 v: Y3 z1 G* P! j
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.' N, J. v2 N; e9 d
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$ C& q# H; h5 X# f3 P) p, _6 w' xThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 p% r3 S M3 [! ], X* t2 Z1 R
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
. c) _% {3 I* lfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
& J G6 `7 S0 w' Ureach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible./ E0 \4 f3 @7 X! J( T r3 ?
4 u* M! m- ^* s4 P) ]$ C+ VGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always) V7 D1 S& P( d8 h2 I
ben a deterent to akurate speling.1 w; G8 V, N* o p/ }. m* q' o
/ L n/ W$ V3 \) _! xAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is! r: U( g3 w5 s7 |* `
disgrasful and it should go away.
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0 Y! H2 Y) r1 \6 B+ P y" X1 j, fBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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4 H5 e$ y, N) v# ^* D( @3 NDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
3 j- ?/ k8 t2 `: Y# ^after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.8 d( R; f9 x! ^7 m5 t" v5 ^
( C) p( }5 y# V* c0 g2 }" O, n9 W7 OZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
: M Q3 |& `- ^( {: J1 G+ J' ^1 }understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
- T3 ^4 U& M- R. ^! i, c6 V: fUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze9 q$ P+ }0 |6 k+ ^6 V
forst plas.
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4 P6 Z+ B8 K3 b8 S! k: T+ m4 iIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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