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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
* I" s/ L# |4 G7 Z! G8 Zbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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2 Q, ^$ Q4 ~! u' W: D5 G& `As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English7 B/ d4 T0 {' z
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in3 t% j! ]* X* j7 l% R" _/ U
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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) q5 p0 b- N3 U9 Y- }5 g$ yIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 B$ U$ g% V) i# R( {5 y1 B. k3 y
the sivil servants jump with joy./ R) T% D- G ]0 ]3 G
0 V5 N$ Z) l4 I- [5 i) uThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up1 G1 g. n3 n4 |4 u% _ ]- P
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
2 e' [/ |5 q V+ M+ _3 Xtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like& L: p0 o8 w) g
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to* H+ l# G, r9 u7 H
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.6 A% _% ?1 u" C3 Z2 p% G
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 u1 v" g. [+ f; {( j! i; l% g1 |
ben a deterent to akurate speling., i; p) y" I( D2 a# M3 t
) `, R7 T t4 O: u* [+ ]: IAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is0 {/ _, D2 O- Y. \$ [9 l& o$ |3 ~
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
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
# A1 Q" ^- F; l0 E9 O: Rafter 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* G/ [* n1 ~& w
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru./ K* R4 b3 S7 U# ~
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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6 k ^5 [. S) [+ j; h; m1 wIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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