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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
5 X- z8 l8 L0 i0 X) xbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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5 e; t8 ?1 E$ l/ [9 G6 SAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
, s' A! b" ]7 j8 ?spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in' I3 P/ E. l! g9 N$ b0 F
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".) w9 E9 `6 n) M B Y- {* ^1 q
/ z; m% |6 t" V" l% u8 D9 V$ d' Q7 wIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make: _% K. L# T: Z, F; G
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up4 d! P7 K* X4 y: v
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.7 ^% C) Q/ l4 I1 w9 C' ~4 j* f
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5 _' y( J+ ~4 A/ NThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the1 ^7 u/ u6 `: D8 P% x
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like0 X2 }) i/ @8 m$ _
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to1 J E& F& I* Z( F' V! u
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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0 W3 U6 @9 y* ?0 q; NGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& k3 k2 @; @4 [
ben 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" Q! f, c# c- E: W/ j& H
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: a+ n! \. S* V, u# f, h# H+ B h
"z" and "w" with "v".
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! L S* e+ i6 d8 mDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 a5 n0 P! y% D- X p# mafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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3 v2 S8 \" O P) q5 ^Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu& F$ @+ t- a1 _$ {5 T$ N4 d" m
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
9 o5 }, e$ I9 _: jUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 }! A h5 D/ V( x1 i5 f
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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