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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ ]/ Y1 C6 ], q
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was& @3 K. x+ x4 q: a: w& ^+ B
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English2 R: I7 K, U- M9 p- }- _
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
$ l7 j4 a6 K; L3 p3 Y' kplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".9 }! X6 S6 U: W a Y5 C' N
+ g% V( i; z( C ~3 kIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 Q" B O2 _7 [# @5 l+ n
the sivil servants jump with joy.- D; z. K& [ c9 Z8 w% c# _$ y j6 I
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
/ Z4 J8 p+ _4 x# u* c8 O+ t" Ckonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 L" p+ z& j: [8 l4 Y
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 b1 C% H; h* Q: ?9 m0 }( p+ d% Atroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like. Z* b- X) ?4 M+ k5 [' W
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
8 g1 \' @& A% N! c* ?) h R$ B6 ~reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.3 V9 q+ ^) ]" U& Q
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
/ Q7 V E1 ~- |ben a deterent to akurate speling.) e6 M: g! v/ S% X! O1 i4 a5 n2 Y
8 h2 G5 N' i* W; |. B0 RAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
$ u# w; g" s, w$ E' H- ?disgrasful and it should go away.( a7 h$ O3 J5 W" V6 }
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with; v3 A9 A* |2 ^+ C/ A
"z" and "w" with "v".
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, N: p1 ]8 P5 a% ?% fDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
+ C$ I: f( o5 b: l }/ ^$ uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.2 L1 {! h- d0 ~1 T* c7 h
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
, }' Q6 P" Q4 K" y; x. Kunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru." |3 L k% i' Q
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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2 x, U' j" V8 E: e: u9 DIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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