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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will& A% I: [4 `$ R5 I( C# v2 M0 c9 @
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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; H" m/ d& @3 `As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
7 }- y" x% f2 o# `spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in' c$ p7 [; R# P# i# ^
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".& m# w2 d. K8 A/ ^0 m
3 M# I: ]* @# C* j; ]7 tIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make$ e: o9 H" G% i5 C
the sivil servants jump with joy.' t/ L: }) v8 ?; j ~1 ]
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up. T$ j3 ^& l' w( Y" _3 I5 V, y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.2 v' k* N" l- |* h% o
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the ~* m6 E3 F2 c, m# D5 T9 B
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to H# k5 I9 q+ {! j' u2 u
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! X1 @# m. v2 F* s; q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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: {4 e Z4 f$ tAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
; V" q1 [, F9 Q- Y1 Wdisgrasful and it should go away.
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" n& l" P* {0 H) c8 x6 x& sBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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) ^7 O! X$ ], K5 ?, RDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and* C1 Z3 S5 g# k6 N7 b# y: S3 }
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
" r" V/ K6 S" J! E6 M0 Qunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
$ p: A1 B# L' |. j3 ]Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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