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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
3 m+ S# s; W6 T( Obe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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& [+ P" B" O! B2 aAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
, Y6 D! d2 c! A6 Q3 X7 Zspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, o. K; {. [$ E1 i/ U5 F
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".) a" w- d5 H- U
, ]1 l& L% J' z$ |/ ?In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make( t1 o$ W- _6 W' n* m5 W
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
3 D5 G6 @3 u% B/ A5 r$ |konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
# p" A" k5 [7 d) ?troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like8 S7 [- C' l6 U7 _
fotograf 20% shorter.: ^% e$ u- m" y! c
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to9 {+ `- J, }2 T! `+ H* X
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. O- w6 h3 a. Y7 @( a& c
0 k! d5 z% y1 V9 rGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- q. B, f- Z @4 {+ w* W( x6 i$ Z+ c& C
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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1 F# M0 z4 o$ t/ o# |Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
r6 K/ F7 ]' M8 L) j: i! P# ]disgrasful 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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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and0 u5 E; ~5 o' W/ |: x; o1 q
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.: z& c, E/ D7 B7 x3 ^
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. G8 V3 k7 B8 T% J1 T# Z4 Lunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
& Q: T j- ]- U% o% Z3 JUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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5 ^3 ?, P% z8 J5 {2 r3 f% d5 dIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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