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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
5 F/ S6 ^! q6 c- E/ ybe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was4 n5 t+ F5 {" L, n4 G8 ?
the other possibility.
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3 R* j6 s% o+ T( P: n$ c% U# `' cAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English$ O. I1 [ @6 \- u# w; h2 Q
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 ^6 F1 q. G7 g
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." Q# ?9 C% A* S3 R: P
; K( [, H: x5 o/ q5 ?In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make9 x& a' u4 C* z& w! G; ^
the sivil servants jump with joy.& s4 s5 a0 f( z5 A9 o( |1 U
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up" G% c8 J y! J, J- M, \& u
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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% U+ ^; q& f, ?; e/ d% NThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
c( H/ r" |4 F \& R% [4 n" j+ q& Stroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
* i) C% D) D8 T1 }& tfotograf 20% shorter.
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/ N, x. C; l4 Q1 zIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
6 m6 G9 d/ k7 Q; l! M2 G: f! `reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always2 C* L) d, }- a0 G8 \* n3 ]0 L
ben a deterent to akurate speling.7 k7 B0 a6 u$ a A9 ]) x4 y
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
% b5 i( x; z- D; \' U2 h9 fdisgrasful and it should go away.
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; y: h7 L$ V* C" z$ ]# y5 Z' R6 w9 ^By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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+ \$ w! h# c. x, I! s# dDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and( {4 O0 y7 {' p. N
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.1 W. @2 [9 ^* ~
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: w7 u7 K% N% {
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.+ x# l, j7 D+ ?
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze" B) i! [% X J, |
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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