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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
& g/ V' g5 S; a6 M) n3 Ube the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was; o& |5 Z9 B* P1 {7 a) N- c
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8 d6 c5 U: U" b; G- \& z% N! f$ {As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
0 @- k/ Q9 L0 L6 Espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in6 E; K8 K' h- @* u) M. V( {
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".9 X' L1 u p% D v6 `
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up) e: z- H, \0 o7 j/ ~# V
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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$ O, {0 I0 `. p2 XThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
# o( N( x. }- Q4 F) q" e; n9 |" jtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like, |! I6 B7 v/ ?$ L1 [6 \
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
& n1 U4 s4 Z( `4 v# a2 Hreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible./ H1 C3 D0 T5 z! c3 f. i$ K0 e
" f. X+ x7 V6 j7 w1 l3 hGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
i2 L U4 n8 x! W2 Wben a deterent to akurate speling.
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* ~7 x l H( B% @Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
+ ~9 `/ _! f3 M& U! `) s' _) Ndisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# C* r# p1 M5 G+ o& A) r, u9 z/ ~
"z" and "w" with "v".
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# X% [, o- ?+ SDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and0 Z3 c. ~5 s I' z4 ~; M
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
# v7 m7 s: S/ o( }' Uunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
. x* u0 b3 |- [$ rUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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$ f" N6 n" Q" ZIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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