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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will" d1 J/ a8 E: C0 {; t: D2 F: k
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was2 \! j9 I Y: r4 k* g( _
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
( ]9 e# w* k5 p" r( B1 ispelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
, Y0 F' @7 P2 p/ z6 S- iplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make& M2 x; r+ A! A2 Q2 G
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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- K- K H4 Z, p) yThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up) z. D' \5 [ y0 u9 r
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the( _/ G8 m: a4 t, A$ S
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like1 k% `! Q- q" [9 P5 y2 A! S- }
fotograf 20% shorter.
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" o+ D' L) |) e) y* i, \$ \- kIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 ^ L, l* o0 V0 L, z# Y4 Lreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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, r$ @% i- O: p( P! DAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
5 r$ T: X0 s* Z, Fdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with8 D: |' J/ w: M _
"z" and "w" with "v".+ f. E: s3 Y& _; j! w
, T( x1 S. l# j* E \: DDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and2 X9 @: q7 b* t' s% p/ o$ \ U
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 tu0 U. n% [! z5 w0 p) s
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
5 f7 @$ h4 b$ @0 o3 |: F( g& y: }; j- CUnd 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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