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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
h" y/ X+ C0 R9 F" `be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# {* v& ?/ p; d4 T/ I) ]1 V
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! R% M1 R- K1 a3 g: [" U! ~2 TAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English! _/ U' V8 O x1 x
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in0 u. [+ J& w7 ~2 q$ X8 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. h1 e8 W% @! P1 H$ J1 [* I! L
the sivil servants jump with joy.! U7 s7 k3 L: ?
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
% ]) c0 E8 K1 N2 i4 o* {+ |konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 L6 f9 P% N0 }2 R7 n D1 X4 S
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the% F7 w* B; M0 H5 ~) `+ [
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like$ W( `3 @* I) k* G G
fotograf 20% shorter./ Y- } E; |$ k
' @8 t: L1 N/ N' e' `- |In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
( _- |1 X8 W0 z+ f! T1 Yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.$ E5 p6 V' z. Y1 y+ h, g4 c1 y
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; ~) H6 @: a/ x! j8 r# uben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
" N. Z q) E2 m# B0 P' rdisgrasful and it should go away.( b5 I% {4 i `3 n1 ` I: R
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By 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
9 h( ?% f0 s5 a: k5 c! L4 lafter 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
% O% a4 H7 w" b7 c& Uunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
& O9 K5 H G2 u( B1 c3 Z1 a9 xUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze1 C) U" c% g) ?, [3 e$ c0 e
forst plas.
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0 S) h$ b6 P# \4 z4 g. dIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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