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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ M( u2 D/ w: n' n4 [4 Nbe 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 Y) l9 _ ^4 h/ X8 _& p
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in: g% V2 J; I" P9 {2 E
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." l) ]: G! F J) T" j# A
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make" X" }6 W2 N9 m
the sivil servants jump with joy.2 f2 z# ]! w2 }; J
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
2 `+ h0 m: H# c0 E6 ]konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ m" J( S3 a: o1 ` S; z; e
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! Z+ E6 L& k* M1 ?There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 j' Z' F* d' ~: P3 Ptroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like l5 N. h# H L9 N; E/ J- r7 F
fotograf 20% shorter.! |% c1 F/ u& _6 \" y& a" f; y
% s6 [; B' b; v$ O% \* O2 P) Y8 _In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
5 m* f: e; D4 `/ n* y& I- Treach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* y: [4 t9 F2 Z: P4 R
& c, h* e- Q; v9 d$ uGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& r `3 Z5 ^" F7 o
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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1 b7 C& \7 Q& d3 i# o, XAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is' T7 p+ Q& N3 S. S6 p9 s5 ?8 p7 Q0 R
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with/ I% x p5 B. n
"z" and "w" with "v".# u7 l" q* [& C
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 m5 x' f! r4 A0 k3 ]- X% Hafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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3 h! g: n& r: |Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
~, R! s6 A+ Iunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
9 ?# r' N$ a _+ z6 ?. FUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze8 _6 z& [" [1 m9 Z
forst plas.
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% H6 K# M# V# ^( w! j$ eIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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