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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
8 g' g" E# B0 M# t; }3 X- O8 Q, g" Gbe 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
; j& O$ \$ |6 A$ jspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
+ }1 q) R" O8 q+ ^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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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up( t" I9 r, _$ y g# M 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* C0 C/ f$ Y4 a+ K
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
9 x4 _- G9 c5 g/ _0 K6 }6 ]/ [fotograf 20% shorter.0 `/ c ?' K# x( Q. X! N. l0 U
2 f- c$ H" \ HIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
1 G" V+ Z2 G0 T4 N6 |reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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) r+ I* e- ]4 {6 j0 `( M# f# rGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 `3 n+ x; I9 s) G' ~" x9 J
ben a deterent to akurate speling.8 I _% R. V7 ~. j$ I, ?$ \0 l
! e/ ]' F4 H! `. v, [Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
- C/ d# T5 @$ z$ A! z2 fdisgrasful 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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% W2 O) T6 V8 Z( N! _! QDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and3 F5 _6 y p! p, m; R4 {/ f. A
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
4 M; O5 q% R) a' Y% m8 Q, H3 eunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.) Q% F" h8 q5 W- O! N
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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