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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
& {( e8 s$ |1 m6 a2 m' Gbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was2 X7 T4 v8 O$ U- t
the other possibility.7 r6 ]7 @, ?" b) M1 x5 r- o
3 o1 g' l, R! Y7 v# q; y9 xAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English8 Y0 a2 \2 a' h5 q2 S
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, O* y+ u( I) J; Y+ a
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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6 q7 j, d! u$ QThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
# X8 |+ S, \ G" [konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.; W: a+ e0 r# w, Q/ E r. G
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
& X0 T* W7 d% u8 D ]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
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 K7 H+ d2 T( ~6 b/ ~ M% h. a
ben a deterent to akurate speling.9 n M" _0 n' v8 [
( J2 d3 z. K- C2 AAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
- w- X, Y9 y4 R/ Bdisgrasful and it should go away.
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2 p7 T& q, j3 F. O: H7 U$ Q l5 FBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with6 \3 p: D! u8 p. ~7 {
"z" and "w" with "v".9 L1 x# }3 u2 A V
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and3 o6 N: o, d9 r0 c" w1 v. \0 o
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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?3 S( B. b2 x7 p4 Y8 ^) wZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& F' z5 ^8 ]. O/ t0 Yunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.2 k. S9 k0 S1 G. A' o0 s9 v
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze5 t! l7 I) f3 P/ N! E+ @& O
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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