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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ y& H! a3 E( m* [
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
O* i7 a M1 x" X2 f- Nspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
% e; |- H1 B" yplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make/ I; ]8 B* d" u+ h& M/ p
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
) B2 m* n. {% G [; p' Bkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the/ F( N9 P7 h" k& ] N) f" h& S8 U
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like3 S2 X+ W; F/ ]1 w. g; R# }
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to8 z6 Y/ i& o- {) Y6 S9 f6 c
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always. @0 _# h }: ^; Q5 H! J
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
7 ~, U- n, O+ N% cdisgrasful and it should go away.2 }& i( ?( a4 X2 Y8 R
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 Z6 f9 t# ]2 ]0 u- R
"z" and "w" with "v".
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" _ W/ L' Q2 b3 ODuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: ^, P% b: f7 i, X0 `; S% D
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 [: F8 R0 j( Z3 \: A. [% b, t4 f
# l& |2 ^+ ^/ l; _ X$ [3 BZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. b6 H3 x0 t( \& x M4 I' [understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 S( v& H( p5 [" Y
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze$ Z4 c+ O& J7 @) G" R
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# L8 @2 @8 V- J1 T8 vIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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