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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ z6 Z4 U; \. x0 A2 }be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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8 G- W4 D: g, s7 y$ d7 hAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English; G; J, q) R9 t& s2 A; |4 g$ j( Z5 y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
" x2 ]' l2 T P) U, m# q5 iplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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8 `! `; c" L4 G/ r5 x6 q5 Y4 \In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
& d9 H) Q. `* c9 g# nthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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5 j! t6 O7 ?; Q+ n9 X8 zThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up( y- K. g( Q" s
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.3 w) a! L: q. A: `
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
z& C0 T0 t% Y) E8 i4 @troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 q6 G0 V6 l+ q$ ^ j6 a
fotograf 20% shorter.# k$ M* t, i8 v3 F
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to$ H4 J7 w2 F+ e2 }8 B
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; h8 ]) ]- m' a. e" s, w# xben a deterent to akurate speling.: j0 \; Y; b" H1 a" {* P
0 K+ c% W) K7 }* v# GAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is, z; U" ^/ |2 L: G0 _
disgrasful and it should go away.- {0 c: G/ h2 m
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with& y" M. i' H0 u5 ^- Z; M+ N; M4 Y
"z" and "w" with "v".
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@/ d& ]- N7 [5 x. u$ mDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and- M5 l8 J" m- E/ m" V* ~/ Y. g
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.: a1 W% @8 ~8 N# ]2 n0 m o4 o
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu, C" P& k8 g4 \9 |- U1 _# T
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.* F! H7 B! h4 l5 }% n" {. u! w1 s
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze5 F" Q( \) s6 X/ V
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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