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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
. H, y s5 n7 ~% D- g) v8 Gbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was6 u) i. G; g9 }( g/ i0 n
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( d# i2 ?: l9 N2 L* w. QAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
6 T0 X5 M2 e' b% bspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
: n5 v" G& |* t* D7 a! x9 Rplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 R- R5 f. o" g# d0 O' C
the sivil servants jump with joy., X7 {4 K C& A' _+ h8 Y
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ d: Z. V2 L: m. C6 j/ N4 `
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* l3 a" \1 J3 J0 B! H& T7 g I5 i
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
# s2 p1 R$ c( @8 r3 r1 f$ Qtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like- V' Q* ]" M9 s- C" J; ?
fotograf 20% shorter.
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& j5 y2 S9 ^( G3 m% @! h/ X/ c/ Q3 GIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
4 r* F2 R9 x9 b& O, Xreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.& W7 i9 H% z; ~- a" H
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# [( w; c( ]1 E
ben a deterent to akurate speling., K( H. W/ v, U7 Y# p5 x
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
" F( B% c/ ]' Q+ p" s9 I: ydisgrasful and it should go away.
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; {. M+ A! h- w1 F: @/ A% E. nBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
/ c, W/ T* u8 U"z" and "w" with "v"./ F( ] p; i' `7 h7 Z( i3 H- R3 F
, O, w& u$ v& i; G2 f) S5 K7 ~During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and! ?: E) \$ e; J. l/ P+ n: _ g
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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0 m0 u0 H; Z8 @+ cZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu7 E8 p% u2 S. T
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.8 H+ L9 B' U5 ]
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 y$ C1 X( f9 r7 \! z
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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