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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
) m& J" {$ I. U% wbe 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+ b, k" G; a* D, S4 ospelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in) ~1 u% F' p1 a
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make6 l# D' _8 b- q2 w5 Q1 l I( {
the sivil servants jump with joy.' l+ U4 j u6 f" L. p
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up# |/ h% c) Z7 R7 I/ r
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
6 d" n4 a/ A$ }* f5 p, B7 jtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
) g- L8 d1 _0 \5 gfotograf 20% shorter.4 ]! x0 z; C( C
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to1 \3 p$ V. T$ p! I: G; J$ _$ V
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.3 Q* U% c' A o2 `5 h
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always+ U. l" k, m' B' n8 M
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/ _$ g R' C; R
disgrasful and it should go away.) w- V e) V# h4 L3 N4 f, b
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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5 B6 N6 _1 E; A4 {/ D' X6 f8 T& n! o" GDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and9 W; ]# G! R* v' k) Y
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.7 b( T. S3 _0 {4 q
1 F) j, Q7 P! p9 X; F! dZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu( g" F9 ]3 A; t0 K5 m5 W/ Y. @
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
n& B/ a( x8 M# E# K, D ~+ b/ }; yUnd 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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