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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will" @6 c* C" w4 x
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
8 K6 i3 a! I/ {' w2 p+ D% a! ]the other possibility.
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8 f6 X2 d" ]3 ?7 o6 UAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English8 v) y& p0 {0 x& r
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
; c' j; v D6 i! M6 X7 i* k" fplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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* e$ d+ X: i8 e) aIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
7 t4 C( s/ z+ T. b. Tthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
- d% I& K, x2 r" O) {/ j- Ykonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.7 i. I% I* v1 ~; {2 }" m
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
. i0 D8 t. N$ f$ g/ Ptroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
! l3 J( m8 S" X# s1 R9 C* J! ffotograf 20% shorter.
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+ [8 e1 V- T ?) F# W2 E lIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to( J6 H# D0 K" t1 v' k! R3 P
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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: }" c) {/ e! `Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
5 P4 E+ f, [4 }1 E/ _" [ben a deterent to akurate speling. A* W# j) p) |2 \6 ]
; r2 Y" i! F' j& M- @% DAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
9 c. C5 ?# ?6 w. Vdisgrasful and it should go away.+ V8 H2 s2 _+ X5 N& Y7 f" P+ u
7 x1 s# T5 t" f" I8 l! P: y3 IBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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. p5 A8 z; p& H. M {: K HDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
- a+ X; G) G( c5 n5 |( D. ^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 tu j: ?! {3 K: F, [8 z3 T3 D
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
# Z" t2 w1 ?! ~+ O) _( S( W+ {) P, ?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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