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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will# L7 {% P7 r f. C
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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0 ^/ k% b& [1 Q5 ]0 eAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
3 ^: y$ C+ I3 Wspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
9 h* s/ M" J. [( z& u6 T( }plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 g4 u; O5 x6 X' r" H" f# M
the sivil servants jump with joy.* S( p# r2 h9 G; w
5 n/ y7 x: o9 zThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
4 e3 M( i& w0 t8 X% e% ~konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 c8 v; m7 }: z$ C) Ftroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like" j7 B8 A5 Y2 x
fotograf 20% shorter.; G% m. P+ w6 @$ ]! ^
) Z6 t) E2 j% g5 @- B) g6 ]' DIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
+ Y2 Z/ Q A4 b& F6 Y ?6 o- }reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.7 S1 s Y" t, B. @- L. A
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
9 g0 ?- n: `) |" `, c1 }( ?8 Jben a deterent to akurate speling. g- [" W+ T9 ]3 g2 r4 D F0 ?
! k. c$ s/ q3 a, k+ s2 m; c( c, }Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
7 b( }0 o+ t4 D1 r) @disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with1 |' Y& ~% b1 v% y) ^
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 F- G0 k- ]$ r! J. y$ e0 ~
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 tu3 ~4 a( j; z j
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
7 }* k) K+ C0 sUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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