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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ a+ M; _6 z" l4 \- [- _7 s# |! r) ^; zbe 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$ [, E k( T" g D$ e
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ ?/ {6 j, N) o" \& E
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make4 D0 U' L7 P! R( I2 I) B0 A/ q- X
the sivil servants jump with joy.) C- i5 y2 a- k
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up" M: v( a% \3 K4 q/ P/ _- B
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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' r# }) l- x1 t. j6 rThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the5 z- l3 I$ a; _. z' d
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like8 k# E; W) V G, X! d7 F& S
fotograf 20% shorter.8 u- ^1 A; k, ?. i
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to$ V' s. T' G5 {* P5 V2 b) c
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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' r0 L/ J4 X" @( y& F- N6 ]7 U" |Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
% o6 e/ q: P( Iben a deterent to akurate speling.+ \" ^/ D4 l" x( A3 v9 k
/ O: X. j# T4 Y0 N3 P, pAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
8 H; K4 M# J4 p) M' }. Z2 Xdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with' z$ i/ J) n3 k% C) d- V+ D' B7 X
"z" and "w" with "v".
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$ K r. y% |1 ?During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and, a' I$ v. T- Q8 _
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.8 V2 `7 ^& l. C9 p8 \* S) b
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
; O u' \2 L' S' \. z. kunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.5 t+ u! W- z/ ~' G4 ]0 u" }* `
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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