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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, Z& j3 f$ a7 }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; h' C( p) m' Z
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in( p! `4 h' ?+ S% k
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ K: f$ b5 [# N% O
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
Q4 l$ y! n/ c: ^8 cthe sivil servants jump with joy.' o0 K5 a. t. J) G5 F. S
* Y/ u% S8 w ?& f* [3 aThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ Y) d9 U$ K& \$ D, nkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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/ L7 b% S4 m) J: X$ a5 dThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 U9 |3 ~! y3 _2 W, ]troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 l7 G, `1 x& `. _fotograf 20% shorter.4 \% Z! u3 O+ L* m& c& Y( t
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to6 B1 Q2 b K8 j
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.7 J6 \8 P8 I8 q9 q0 e6 m
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always5 l9 ]% E% I7 Z) h
ben a deterent to akurate speling.; y) V3 ^1 N, R, s
. ` X3 k1 A' j" T W3 A2 d4 i! o& VAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
) }# d5 y9 I4 T8 y/ [+ Q; D' z2 j6 Idisgrasful and it should go away.- r4 y/ T9 W$ z! W
/ E# J9 S! T& B) k* VBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with/ A# R# y7 H/ s t) h9 q
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* x; ]# i" Z$ m6 wafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 E. ?! L6 J) e% @1 }8 T6 n
* O( X' j) m! E1 M6 Y. {( Q7 eZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu) d/ [- n' Q/ b7 G% h9 S( Q9 Q( j1 i2 J
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
: V5 H( u; |* D& K' h6 w" TUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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6 G8 o9 ]* l5 D: Q5 S# cIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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