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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 Q: f. \/ f- O; Y8 S9 {
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was( ]7 N5 S) `5 \
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
; T7 }. r) V4 v0 R V7 nspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
: i' H% t( A1 P$ n% } u: R: R6 Kplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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' X6 Y4 ]) ^4 ~: p+ \5 YIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make) {4 j3 k) i; M5 V( V% y8 M
the sivil servants jump with joy.4 X5 K! b9 }8 b4 a8 P
" X/ t$ N2 n0 ~' jThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
& y# U$ }9 \$ t9 d9 Akonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.0 N! D7 N/ L8 M2 y1 V# w# ]. g
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the/ k0 s6 ^+ \4 t0 t G# @& v# a
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
+ a# k. f8 G5 I5 e% Efotograf 20% shorter.2 f/ O: N$ J, F2 v$ D X
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to* F# g1 u& V1 S6 z H7 B
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
& h! z# ^' h2 A$ E) T! Vben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is4 ~' F, {/ n& @: ]0 B
disgrasful and it should go away.* D3 N1 Z! r% T" [1 u0 F
4 `# i" r) Y* ]* u! Z6 d7 ~# i3 nBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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% c# v/ z- @2 n) u, KDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and5 w6 n/ Z1 u' C0 g5 S
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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/ s' D, O1 U' k8 r7 IZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
3 G1 W3 f; |- W- Kunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 u8 Y" E3 a- ?: `/ M/ p) y; TUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze8 `9 |9 C- `) w( K0 L
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) I% D4 U- _! Q+ Y6 ?8 w* oIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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