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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will0 ]" c* H4 S6 S$ i
be 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# [2 s$ T6 U9 Fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ R9 ^# n. U; F" } [, ~7 G
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make# J' K' G, Q" B" V' ]+ D
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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$ f4 h) e8 J" q, w( s7 R/ eThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
( X. x: L5 ]) I+ ~konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ J1 J1 c" P6 r8 T. t- ?' B
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? T" \0 |% D; ?8 fThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 A7 E, P7 R0 g3 U; A
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
6 M! a& u5 J5 |7 ^& [8 {* p0 ffotograf 20% shorter.
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' Z) W) a$ a9 s) ?* T) H2 AIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to: x; g( N' e2 e2 Q2 c+ j3 h
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible., H% k) p' m& [( Z$ y, T' [1 G
% d0 U1 M3 w& m% Z7 ~$ ]- J1 ~4 JGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
# D& D. B% G8 Y9 [ t1 Y" t _ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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1 b0 M% }1 m* d% @( _By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with1 |! b# b9 t3 `1 F) S, y7 ^( o
"z" and "w" with "v".+ w9 Y/ R1 P* M+ t w9 v
9 Z5 n+ k, M2 Z6 A& b0 K Z% IDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 B) F% k! W+ i" R5 Dafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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; Q; j+ ?5 s6 d+ nZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
7 C' V& M+ u( ]2 R4 @understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.7 E2 Y5 O" h5 [$ a( S# y, h) b0 v
Und 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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