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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
G6 _4 l# ? I9 cbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
2 A: G9 x% y% @/ ^! Z8 m0 Lthe other possibility., O' }+ J8 d0 R
( }2 I9 M: N4 [- k/ D, T% ~4 oAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
/ \* `2 @) t2 {- c# t3 uspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in0 D- d5 O1 v; @$ q" H. z# H
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." x9 `! @3 B: s
- Y# K ~: k+ bIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make5 l' ~1 o/ ` ]4 S6 W
the sivil servants jump with joy.* Y% k; Q" x! U# `
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
. Y0 f7 o* g9 l! f1 H" @6 e) s% }# L6 Ukonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.7 r$ M. V8 y) n: a' }4 x
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' B8 S; p( j1 YThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 q0 R( D4 b# G& O0 X" z! W1 }) q3 c2 j: mtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
1 I6 u, O0 d/ @. Ffotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
# i( w3 @7 S1 d8 q# jreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.' v2 ?" Y$ z. o; v4 O8 `- N8 c
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always' V1 ?2 Z# g6 J; i" B! t; e
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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; g6 Y4 m& k7 w# N5 z# nAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is8 E+ G4 @1 N/ ], }* D6 t
disgrasful and it should go away.6 U; h/ {4 F2 U( e
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
6 a- e) B6 {* @. T x2 {" X"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and5 G2 A$ F6 D: I( X) x9 C
after 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; f& x, @ E1 p2 |; ^
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
2 Z/ m. w" K2 {9 BUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze q3 v+ f W; B4 H
forst plas.( \' S& m3 y8 k- b- n
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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