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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
# |! }) t" s- ]8 ]# B9 S. ?4 Obe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
& |: u$ V( s- B" J% X' ~* Zspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 t- v! W9 `! y0 g w
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 g( V. [* r$ O) ?1 Q" A$ \
the sivil servants jump with joy.' u3 H; Y/ M* j
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
% V( }9 g( H$ I0 w& \ Hkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.& i5 n4 d6 i; H1 Y3 g
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 N/ T* N2 g0 F* T, _# |troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
/ z5 v& O4 f1 Bfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. i4 Z5 \- h3 q3 k* t
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.0 U/ I+ L a1 E( @! q! {' S
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always$ B1 [2 f7 _ d! M# n! S5 ?
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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* z, b, s% w/ P$ J2 n2 x8 `/ t; ?Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
7 C7 E* T5 ]9 u2 W* T- Tdisgrasful and it should go away.
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0 `8 Q* P8 Z( S. d! fBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with4 l7 o" P: `$ R2 d
"z" and "w" with "v".# B! Q3 K$ p" i' D
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
- V* }/ e8 s# l# a" @" L6 S8 E) ?after 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
5 P# e6 m7 U( a! @understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
E2 J0 M3 d# J7 b" eUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze' N9 c3 x, G4 ~! }0 n6 D7 j
forst plas.
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/ m0 B, q, [5 ^If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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