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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
5 W1 d4 m3 U; k( I. y( E" Abe 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
& \6 S/ K5 l4 k9 bspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, P8 b: C) F3 _$ j! u6 P
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".0 K& }! E' ^4 X) C$ i
2 x7 o1 K- B+ Y& }In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
( X& C2 ^* t; v' X& N+ x: Ethe sivil servants jump with joy.
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+ \9 |( K: K6 o$ u. Z" IThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
+ I: f; R2 r& h% o8 htroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
4 D, M+ Z) C& Q: u" Afotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to+ T2 _: `: D, i" ~- {
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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: K5 t9 `; S4 l w) ]Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
, f1 w( [5 q& q/ idisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 N/ G1 s& D2 m; Q" B
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 K; a. Q9 \% I% a2 u8 ]0 wafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 t# s' D0 X) r7 ]# x/ W
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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, s9 s. l6 c# a1 H* H: RUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze- p% T/ Y9 f& Q6 H4 h
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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