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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' R2 H5 T; Q, z. v7 }! B) F
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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+ B* ]( i* r9 I( XAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
7 i2 N/ |/ d3 K* nspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, _ c7 ~" I* ^6 X- t
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".: `$ H$ {) j, r, K4 l, Z
: U* p! p- b, E ]6 JIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make% S' @; E. ^: f' w# j0 w
the sivil servants jump with joy.# \9 j! F- |! q5 B5 g) ?: \8 C
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: f, o w0 X" B* B
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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* A) m7 T/ s% [0 IThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
5 X/ a. Y5 h- c1 N( \; A: U3 b- Ktroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
6 I, \' n. m/ ~ h B9 Z9 qfotograf 20% shorter.- ^. l7 ^: [ g* x
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
1 `) _( y: \8 T) Q- h+ ]# ~9 C: ^ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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) g- f" E; o9 {' y. t9 z( |2 rAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is. V& J; N3 F3 T% N2 J
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with5 i, c. K4 q4 a- S6 h& Y
"z" and "w" with "v".+ C( p( O4 |+ r/ d- P
5 O/ L& _1 R9 Z: K, cDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. A, ^! `* [ Lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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7 H" H( {# \. P5 hZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
2 u/ \4 c! U# n0 R9 xunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
, w) b7 M N4 `4 m) a0 Q& o) uUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze' B! {" }9 Y; J5 B
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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