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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will5 b d, S" v2 ]; \( S+ G' H& c6 k
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was% w/ l0 O O2 c4 K
the other possibility.9 D5 T( u0 H/ P) ]- x z# M" Y
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English! H! O" }7 q4 ]
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% A3 n) I/ \9 G- Q. m$ ~# n2 q; k8 V
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." W5 @" u/ z0 E4 U! P
7 Y' d4 O1 h( A2 {# O" y1 @In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 E- x5 T# e9 T/ Q# M% d P$ {; N
the sivil servants jump with joy.. m4 f/ w, c% u. y! S" f: @
; [- }7 L) I% v7 `. W2 K* JThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up9 P/ ~$ \/ |2 i. U
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
! S- c- E: T) [- i7 r6 {$ \troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like7 n% u1 p0 R* V, M5 W
fotograf 20% shorter.
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6 G6 x$ o, K4 b& g4 F+ I9 R& gIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to' Y+ o4 c* C2 e9 ^) ~/ k/ m y7 k4 C
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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/ F8 S1 m6 p. i. E( W8 J, U0 ]6 ~3 PGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- c. s* g" H2 Y7 V( h- e6 q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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- o1 r" q- l: H( |0 c3 }! AAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is1 D- C4 F( l& e. {$ O7 `( J
disgrasful and it should go away.) w" @' e8 R' C( D
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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. v. d& F0 Y* R3 tDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and9 S% Q$ u( a" B
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.9 z( N6 ^3 A$ V0 f# t7 D+ a
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
- F: n6 d0 ^7 f6 Q4 o6 Eunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ n# K, }+ J' o0 `; j! _Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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/ ?: s I j U# \4 E' N3 T* rIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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