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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will; U1 f% I4 `$ a# ?3 d; {! |# H( S
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 English
2 h& V) i) `. P- S+ X0 l) qspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in! X2 v3 t& S9 x2 Y: S
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish". ?: Z; n# t. r: A p, U
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make* J+ d7 J% g! } {. ?
the sivil servants jump with joy.5 L3 ~1 u1 k% ^. f% h) K
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up0 |. g) }1 f/ u9 u
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.) Q' e2 h. M& @
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
6 q. l, }& y; E+ S- d3 v3 [troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like& K; C9 r& |3 P- I8 x5 D- d
fotograf 20% shorter.
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+ C! s/ b$ c" E: e! \* `9 SIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to& i7 C0 J7 V7 w
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" b# l( _$ r) ]5 t3 V
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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/ h3 c1 e: D7 ^Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is: D a" t; {- L
disgrasful and it should go away.- C$ X1 s8 ]6 m$ [
# b, V2 d9 A$ j) y- H8 s2 ~/ oBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 x2 u7 O3 s [) l
"z" and "w" with "v".- _+ \9 P3 H# |' E4 J `
]: X5 W3 d' f& BDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
" G9 o1 p, _* {% j0 t* S$ kafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 f+ ~2 s8 A+ D' m) K6 T1 F) n
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu. A+ a, b/ J# [+ g% ?' Z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- U3 ^5 X) G! n& s, t
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 E# a8 i/ m3 }8 j! T& V
forst plas.
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5 ?/ K1 Y3 K3 l% e% d& nIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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