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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, V9 h) {7 h3 gbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 H! ?9 O* [6 a( ~
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% |8 q8 Q/ J3 [2 T2 b! AAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English0 o5 M; {- D+ L! {6 A. e
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in; P2 z& Z; } P- k- H" Y
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".3 K' j/ U% F/ u9 h' G' ?
# ]! [. Z/ w( u) j( w# yIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
& u" z! c) Y' X- h2 l- Ethe sivil servants jump with joy.
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0 [2 w }8 k4 f( ~The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up. v5 U7 Y5 v" R7 j9 u2 z- ^
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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0 l$ N0 D! d" |& F! G! yThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the/ k) A1 k) ?3 E1 B4 c; h
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
Q2 w/ o {7 Yfotograf 20% shorter.+ w/ i' s9 D' b6 p
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
" T' `1 V# V2 }. [& s) Ereach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.. M. z( [- F3 L, H2 L* O
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
2 B y* `4 i7 I! N \9 Tben a deterent to akurate speling.
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; x" n" s" |& P/ N+ FAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
! d3 V; a; \+ V0 H1 \* g$ Vdisgrasful and it should go away.
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2 M, M! _& A+ v: N$ Z' k3 pBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with: \+ G0 b9 j/ H' O; q& `, Q
"z" and "w" with "v".) `+ l9 @5 a& @
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 b; T. J- |, T1 C; S9 B
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.5 A. s* F) s! L2 ^1 H# q* K# W
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
$ F) F2 B6 m' y) uunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.6 {$ ?8 ~" {6 O) P9 A5 M5 Z8 N3 C e
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze0 }/ x9 o8 y$ x. R, t/ z* f
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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