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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
" F# S/ c+ q; T# m( t1 bbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was* K ^. p! S" ~! Z) M
the other possibility./ ~3 _& d) L# P; V/ P
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
8 \7 h& C" o! r2 l5 d2 uspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in S, q0 P w8 @
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".$ n! K: x+ D5 R" | w5 K
5 r, {4 l5 Z0 eIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! L* S2 @ z9 j) \. R3 w" V
the sivil servants jump with joy.4 K+ K- q$ [3 w3 ]
- J" I; F5 c V1 WThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up. ~6 w. V4 \$ m0 T9 \
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the9 q" d- n; K* C+ U4 D" t5 i
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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: O2 Q1 l# F1 [( I6 E( @# A9 ~In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to$ n% B: k1 z9 }5 z# }: C
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: v v" t4 n7 E, }
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 p5 L& Q( r0 R' Oben a deterent to akurate speling.
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& ?# B, n- K6 W z% Z+ nAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is4 f& p5 \: M, ?3 k
disgrasful and it should go away.
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" m% k6 k! K$ C% q% P+ I+ cBy 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"and
0 b. I' n9 [4 u' Y, oafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.- A5 L$ V+ U0 q+ l: M
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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# F O- s5 ]' Y4 }6 J) K" {If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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