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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will* x- ] @9 J4 O/ x1 D
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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+ q' {% R" J" N4 c$ O2 L# @As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
- L8 `( | D P/ l3 B. _' _9 Rspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
. F+ {+ l; x6 \8 G' D! ^# Wplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
5 i0 S+ b G: P$ N6 Athe sivil servants jump with joy.
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5 C' z' K9 Y* pThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
X0 D! Y: K1 r- O% W0 [% Y0 ~konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.8 o5 D) V% [7 {# E0 t
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) b' i4 R8 r; i/ H' hThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: t# C- O$ O" H
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 f' U/ m {. X: Mfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
# q8 Y B* ?! F: _. e+ G ]reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* x v6 v' L4 P( S7 k
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 l9 o+ _* i/ n0 f$ d f, ~( }
ben a deterent to akurate speling.7 X% f' c# P+ y9 N( j- g
0 {0 |1 i" ?2 I( HAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
# `" q8 O" D5 E; f- |, L. O1 G' M# \0 @disgrasful and it should go away.( {/ b. H% H+ S' \
9 ^6 ] X" n( hBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with' Z1 S! d8 R* k" C6 M6 |+ `
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and% l5 G8 x% B/ `" \
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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2 Y& @* H9 s' @5 D% y$ |Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu- z+ j/ p' `: g2 X8 e& z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
1 H% y! v% n: g( F/ p* KUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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V- _3 m7 U9 ]4 YIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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