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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will# D6 Z5 Y; d+ F
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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3 A6 H k" X, |! u* v; R2 [5 W2 RAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English, g8 _) X u+ T3 h N5 S
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 S& o6 ]5 |6 u f4 [
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".' W* H# Q+ @$ n# |
; L% \% s+ I3 Q7 x, kIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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6 T8 ~5 y+ {1 l: wThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
4 i+ r$ Q% b. I( }& akonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& s/ [% I+ o9 a) Y' B) d/ [+ p
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 m6 r4 V; _( ?& S1 _3 g' j
fotograf 20% shorter.- f M- X, W) x1 P7 |0 ^- {
9 f* W2 B/ \$ n! e" ?, p$ n# ?In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to( G: I/ K- ~8 S7 q
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. m5 }, b4 u, H/ D' R$ B) q( p
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
3 |8 S6 m; D5 m1 b5 ]1 ]disgrasful and it should go away.0 l; i& D# X2 ]+ D. h
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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' m# g; |9 K$ c# PDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
7 x+ S& F) u D) T( S& Q9 J3 bafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu) ~ W ?2 @ U8 D6 @5 o/ f
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru., X* X0 l; a" R" K Y/ _6 Q% n1 b
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze+ Z- A6 Q1 Z( [1 [7 |
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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