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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
/ @# h" ?; h2 l lbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" L1 H& _" u; C9 }, p" I2 D. g
the other possibility.0 m/ Y! A+ \8 j+ E5 b" o' Z
9 w' V9 k. Z! O5 L, N1 CAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English: a( m* \5 J4 f! d4 d* k
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& J+ `/ c% x* s8 ^; I2 dplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make T4 j! u3 Z E5 V3 o: r+ P. C
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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; D- j5 `6 s3 M% u" X% G9 ]/ MThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
% g% s: V+ t! W4 Bkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ p/ V' P5 \& u, z; y' E% J5 h2 _
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the; _$ Y* J* {& `& N& T3 M
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
. k9 o |; t l; sreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.) u, d6 `# T7 P3 m
# Q* s' C( [4 K% H4 t( UGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* ?1 }( b+ y+ X, e
ben a deterent to akurate speling.) Z/ ^" `' E6 o8 u9 R9 t2 z
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
+ H3 W5 P1 ^4 F/ h6 c* Tdisgrasful and it should go away.) v# w; P Y2 y6 p2 A* T
3 v, A9 \4 C2 r$ A3 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/ @' J1 L% T5 W; T# G9 @8 M. ]
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
C* w8 P7 H, d/ G4 [. aunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. T9 S2 i: t* l% k1 r! w8 b, Z. h
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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