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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
3 `: P# I" n* U' b6 ube 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 English6 r& y ]& V- H+ N
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in s* t0 n8 n$ g8 j5 @
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".' G0 ~+ V2 P5 p5 z2 F
: O1 m% A8 w8 I# _9 h6 x" FIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make7 m9 z! L! A; W, r" C& z+ k t1 g
the sivil servants jump with joy.4 H' g8 D1 X* F5 ?% U
`/ K& ^; C. Z9 }, N4 ~% QThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up4 j) n$ G' n. ?1 R8 W$ m
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* K9 |! {' N8 a( \/ C) R' M6 D
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2 W* j( n6 K* A9 g2 d+ Y# [There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the0 a9 q1 O8 C* y' y. i! W3 T6 p. D) B
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like. d5 \' W$ {( w. ?
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
8 W; B2 d9 n8 [1 W' q# }' {1 G! Rreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always f! U& N/ J8 {3 i8 k
ben a deterent to akurate speling.& \- g* y$ K. ] ?
0 N* E/ E& X2 U; s* AAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is( l9 Z$ g( z! A; {0 H5 U
disgrasful and it should go away.
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& i# T7 c; U6 g* xBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ ^9 r, r" A8 F1 L( ^: m: L
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
G2 L9 Q1 I6 ~3 k( \' hafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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9 h( e5 E/ x: q2 E6 n" ~Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
' P7 y8 T" s6 |, x+ F# ?0 j ~) Wunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 P' A, c. r! H" H, bUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze0 T; P, K( K# i. T( d9 D
forst plas.
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2 q( m4 b4 B. v4 A+ gIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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