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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
! _/ p: C5 s2 K% q: Abe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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1 e# U6 ?: ~; g% Q& s# \( u1 Z# w) v; CAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English0 Q: p$ G1 ^' C( \. c
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* ^2 k% o" d8 r; V) N& ~plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 D3 K5 G1 g! J) W' Q8 n6 K2 E
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make9 T( t. k# ]5 z( O; j
the sivil servants jump with joy.) \8 I0 p- c0 T' U8 k
8 h/ J9 d! H! d5 Q( R- rThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up1 [& L$ R9 S8 o) z9 K2 Q
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
4 u9 T, H: u# S8 X5 q* a. Ltroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! M" f" I( |; f1 l
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
2 x. Z J$ o8 F* B5 j) W. H# _3 kreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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3 B4 T" i8 u' R6 y' SGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
9 t |( O1 Z6 U" z% D: _ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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% V$ t5 f4 e8 o' `Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is/ P6 \0 ~& A, X( f
disgrasful and it should go away.
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7 ~5 ?+ d2 l8 J' _! g; i/ G$ Z% KBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ u* w* S9 A6 z4 C& u; K* S
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
+ l$ }" }) I. `6 d, n# Gafter 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) I8 V+ P- f5 X' Q! C6 [
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
i3 H5 i$ m& v2 O6 yUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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4 q; B. l+ s& y! D3 O! C/ FIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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