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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will+ X* }1 F& k2 r5 J2 j2 v
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
: B# P% H1 a# L/ F x9 \4 ospelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% t: n0 j. i2 v p" U, @8 i
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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3 G( V8 H% q+ K* |, {In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
: C" b- B' s+ ]0 O2 Wthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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6 Z3 Q1 y* R0 `The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up' m5 X+ F! t9 ~$ P! q" r% T
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.7 r, b) V0 w* U' z% @
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2 W. i h0 V1 b& V' e, p' UThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
# u( W' U7 c" `% J+ Z# L1 dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like- ?9 g6 N2 [& _ g
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
5 X1 S' J7 z8 }1 z% Hreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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% L7 n6 ~, M$ I) y4 w! q8 T3 ^Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 O \) u: G" B5 F. N
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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! R: H: ^; ~+ U5 {: pAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
: |% M9 u- r/ o; q; Ydisgrasful and it should go away.
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7 {+ z6 u5 A) c) IBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
" a: G3 T$ c- j! _# i6 Q"z" and "w" with "v"." ]$ A# a& m3 J" @! L) X7 h b
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and4 _5 V1 C1 f k8 f0 q
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; ?8 A i1 v% ?6 Y% f/ N7 E7 }
: L% l9 m/ p- C. }+ ?' ZZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu& D8 Q- i! x& Z" h
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
: F6 b& B1 S- V i# AUnd 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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