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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will) ~+ c* I. y" k* \2 f
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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9 ?& W6 |5 U _- ]3 B* |As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
7 z* i8 H# ` w; e% [8 fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
7 c" A# {6 O7 g: d; H9 [. Gplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make5 V/ W+ w6 ^! n
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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) m, D& ?* L: ]The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up- q0 l' b7 x/ i6 [9 X6 o
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.# E. r* a1 j+ c/ J! x
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# l: e; }2 |& |1 U" l8 \' u7 sThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, E8 B1 v( M) ^2 ?+ L G0 `( l$ ~
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 N+ C5 f7 ?! t+ t& p% Afotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to$ i: [* }3 S9 i
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.6 G* M% x0 b/ c2 E6 Y: K4 u/ G) {
$ P T( b" ~2 ~) H g+ ~0 Y3 cGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
+ O) J H. P/ F( C5 Tben a deterent to akurate speling.
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5 J4 p8 ~0 R& E' `6 J3 B# Y8 r8 KAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
; l' K, W; I, m! b( \ U! \. {. Vdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with: s# [7 X# D; v1 m* \
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and' i) ~! e) [. K7 Q4 `" H1 }
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
9 O' ~& ^/ S' j* h1 ~1 K6 Zunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.5 W' X5 ~7 G% v. a
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze8 b; r6 E& j f C0 o! [
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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