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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will% I1 G9 `/ L3 ], d& j
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
# ?8 M' u$ ?. l# rspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
# P/ B5 @3 @% f9 [4 E7 p. Fplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".9 u4 X* x- A, @2 g& y5 e
1 _5 ~* \; N+ l1 DIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
. X9 S- e4 `0 C4 r$ L- M7 X3 }the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
4 J- X4 o" c/ f' `# Ikonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter." z/ G( T3 t( M, m/ r# t- {
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1 K" O! `# D% w6 Q. o' ?There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
\3 o2 D: ]: {* ]4 X. L/ @troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like4 e" r8 V+ S8 j* H
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
$ O2 C' I; N3 t" J! z Preach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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/ `( {- @/ y; A5 |* B- d$ S% |. GGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always, g# S9 A# m5 K+ X+ f
ben a deterent to akurate speling.+ K" m9 T% d8 g1 ]5 x
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
4 g' {% r0 @( u' Edisgrasful and it should go away." R, Y4 s/ E, e8 W ?
! S. W$ C- X* d8 EBy 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
) i, H* m# O* Q( Mafter 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. N0 ?3 H6 [1 i" `4 N' {( ?: D
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
! l k$ g: p$ q ZUnd 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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