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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will. r+ ?% d4 @ o
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was. g* I8 x% ^, I3 ^" y# Q# b' i' p5 I
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$ i, G8 T% r' ^8 p) @$ W4 vAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 i3 a4 j0 l- Z; @1 o4 a: _% V% h
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
. r6 [2 _( W0 H4 G- [plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." m( L% t! b/ {/ O) O- _8 ^( j
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make* E# L! a+ z) f5 I% X. j
the sivil servants jump with joy.. H5 m6 D+ z0 }6 e
8 F: J3 V, D5 u# H( ^" _% LThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up. U& U3 O0 r. S5 ^- c2 k6 G4 V
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.! A# v6 x2 b1 U, n- k, H
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: O( _$ C/ O1 s0 ~& a# ]
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 j' B V5 q8 S+ Xfotograf 20% shorter.
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/ h) @- `4 [5 n9 F& S$ a4 CIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# |. h2 V& A) `4 I& H" ^
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible." a0 |/ I$ r& E% k
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
5 q* z) u4 o0 P; x( x( zben a deterent to akurate speling.' {9 k/ F9 [( l7 K1 j% ]# C
! o* v* j& L8 s3 `Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
& \6 t9 J9 ?) h" adisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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1 F. e; f$ ]; X# aDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
% ^4 I0 O. B3 l/ y6 E0 K. \+ qafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
) L1 @5 x" X! V6 ^5 S( P% Munderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
, U3 Q5 C" ?4 ], ? ZUnd 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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