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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
; B/ ]+ r3 p' [( Z4 abe 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
5 C! [7 f1 m- G* r9 i) c Y5 [; T3 ospelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in+ g& F% E4 b5 [ x# T% E
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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2 i& f' C0 ^' B8 e! [: a' V8 ~The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up5 C3 l z/ c6 w3 O8 _; p- P4 x
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., D% f- e2 J8 _
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the1 G- u Z. e( v
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
! I4 \0 l& y( S) S8 a" wfotograf 20% shorter.
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+ T3 o5 F& s" M7 N# A7 S% a/ w, `In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to" y$ A0 u2 S) m
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 p# \- ?* C3 B; I+ k4 E% t, aben a deterent to akurate speling.
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8 ~! v; D. P; N% FAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is6 h7 z% }4 h# K0 f' N7 E. V
disgrasful and it should go away.5 e# ^- g9 u( F1 V
; R5 R: j% w. k3 Z- D2 S5 `By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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& `4 _8 P1 d& j1 W: Q# S9 CDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and# }* y. h/ Z, |9 T' x
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.! N9 j$ G) m; l/ T4 ?1 @8 p
5 v2 @2 y. Z- R0 U6 j) ~) YZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu6 s+ t. a$ _) q4 q7 j- a0 Z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; z* ^! w0 T0 g6 u# OUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze* s* W3 G0 m" G B. g5 C) ?
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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