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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will" j% o$ |2 W# j0 S' I* V
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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8 ]/ z1 s# I- ?8 yAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English: q( ?7 @4 c3 ]8 c
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 P' B6 j; s4 Q
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
; f6 v' Z8 N5 c% x2 h4 Z% q1 o. Z8 Ithe sivil servants jump with joy.7 Q [* m" V- R( H8 M+ O
, b$ S/ N( N$ `$ W5 xThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% u& ^9 \9 b1 j9 w, z
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.; p1 \$ d8 O. h
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* R( C, x* n% z" cThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, u ^, }# a( o' U0 qtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like/ ~* [5 Y% T6 A2 V- E) P
fotograf 20% shorter.) p$ L4 G" {( f. _6 p* N0 h
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
4 \& Y- V; K( w: yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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9 [, x O' b4 l, y3 X$ U7 zGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
. Z0 ~. o8 C9 C# s+ ^: Qben a deterent to akurate speling.
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( g' i$ q. A: mAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
% p: K$ C6 m3 H8 v* N' q' I2 Xdisgrasful and it should go away.2 A6 I' B; ~, W' k$ P. F
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with; F- D, |# F% |" |" l$ Q% M
"z" and "w" with "v"., h: U0 }6 d2 P* x) m0 h! }& j
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ w2 h1 w' \, f$ Safter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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7 y5 I V1 [1 `5 g5 l1 e VZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
% l0 P* g5 @& {& ]understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 C) n6 e. Z7 Q6 y" c: V6 y5 {Und 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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