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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
k9 p. X4 H$ N! B$ X; vbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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1 x6 m' l' g9 [- @As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
1 A% G% o- X% ]1 g& a9 \# A5 Aspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, W# D9 ?% [: b& X7 m
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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6 D1 a" q" D5 t+ W0 p* l: hIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make6 [: [8 Z* }1 W2 n V* s
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up3 H' @' S. T# j+ O
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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F ]6 S4 V# r, r
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the8 L: ?8 `2 T' R# {$ ]4 ]7 M; `: j
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
J6 I' o+ I( Efotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
; s- x6 n4 a& t3 m( V; Wreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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$ \* Q( ^3 b$ t/ kGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
+ K$ a0 N" e O; ^ben a deterent to akurate speling.7 p- c- {% C: g4 \
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is; B0 T( o8 x3 v; r/ u( P
disgrasful and it should go away.2 B8 K2 u9 e9 Q9 h3 T- M! P
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with ?9 v8 L4 {. _7 C3 a0 f
"z" and "w" with "v".
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! n: `8 S; _5 u$ M( SDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and/ }! k2 e4 G/ }! P. m0 q* F$ k
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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$ U6 T: V/ W8 H8 _1 C, S$ QZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu Y, ^ ?, L2 t3 y4 @8 \: G7 Q9 f
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.2 A+ I* [8 n5 _2 K1 y b
Und 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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