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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will7 w6 E5 e: h% T5 H* `
be 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 English4 U2 u+ H4 I7 v: q6 g% Z- R+ N
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" `! \( A' b( P4 n4 f
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make9 }- m5 o5 s7 E7 R- S L
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; T; D# [; K! L$ m
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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4 v& I; ]7 e8 @* k6 o- u6 d* ?There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 w' N/ O; c5 j" j I3 Y ftroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
' y' ?6 p: ]4 N* q, O2 j. Xfotograf 20% shorter. Z6 F$ D( ]4 ~- R3 e
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to+ U3 E. `( i7 i5 C
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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) W* Z; k* T" v5 z- nGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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1 x' A, q6 H- u9 H5 ]Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
& N( L' O% h/ O# @2 M- N9 F$ fdisgrasful and it should go away.
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: v/ L2 M- I% r7 t5 W$ }# CBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 s) l2 Y) o0 [6 @$ J
"z" and "w" with "v".
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6 D2 R% ], ^6 y. G @" bDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. r4 N- `# _; w' w3 }# L* {after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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7 i0 [0 @* f5 |3 @ [Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
9 {4 }/ w$ w8 N0 t9 y1 h( X( yunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.' }+ e- C0 j4 e S; y
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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