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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
' s7 H# X/ l4 y; bbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was8 L& j, Q }. W5 E
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English6 w/ ~; s8 w; C( g( V4 @
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& d/ w2 M; o, g3 ]2 B8 m5 v- ?7 Jplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make: K$ z0 O5 |5 [3 S4 w$ i x7 p' T( ?
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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2 l0 e& _" K, j) W) y; c* }The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
8 W7 p- @, G7 {3 p$ Dkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the2 F% M4 b% w3 ?; c9 F, S- v
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like$ p% d* K6 u! b
fotograf 20% shorter.3 V" B5 q) M) C1 J
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
& j; U h' {6 G3 Ereach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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) d4 r; u* Z; T4 |) oGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
' C! B- z3 i- x4 O( Y& Z6 C) Jben a deterent to akurate speling.
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2 w- P- t' P) o/ H( C1 PAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is& @4 u1 j# I: D t8 T* \
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( Q2 D2 T* a+ {
"z" and "w" with "v".
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5 t2 D5 L4 j7 \; lDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 G3 b* e5 y; a# m& y* v+ J$ `
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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, {. y3 w& ]7 Q) _( fZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
5 m/ u8 N/ J6 `6 Z9 wunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.+ J% L5 N2 O2 e ?; d& Y' ?* M+ Z& Z
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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