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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ F/ N2 |# {7 [
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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. f0 I8 X; }6 h5 XAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
+ O$ }9 p; c9 P$ C, `% V& Bspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in' o8 i7 e$ Y6 d5 | X
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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" a1 o% T: i, d# mIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
( ?- x, {/ Q6 o3 C, P9 y3 l! @the sivil servants jump with joy.7 L2 @+ Q/ v' k* h* ]7 y+ [ ]
% y+ N$ w- M# @1 {The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ p( A! u) l! b, _( Y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 C% a; l, j" o
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like7 ]6 g/ o* ?, n8 ?- R+ ~( n
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
6 q" n) n0 h1 Q! Y l$ n) Yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.; T1 d1 Y- d6 J5 L
7 D+ N9 z; L* g& Q9 w, W+ QGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always( o* w7 a0 g# e4 [: M/ l
ben a deterent to akurate speling.% h) X0 {3 v: ^( k6 y) z# `, W: t
( `' v5 M5 j' O( A3 h6 i7 FAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
( W2 ?$ C7 ]0 p6 a, _disgrasful and it should go away.
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2 E7 i& V! U; NBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with5 w5 `7 H1 u% L( N
"z" and "w" with "v".% \8 H1 n/ i, g3 g6 H
+ W# r7 k% C9 RDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* x, p% H2 J& }. j5 H3 t! b. zafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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9 n( W- w# L) {4 W0 P8 Q wZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
V+ d1 o$ C0 l" K6 v( `understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- u' w& I" q5 O8 @% `2 F+ p
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze' W; J% I0 X3 M h
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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