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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 Z# C, Z- ~5 o- C( B* K
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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+ x( ]" x# @ L! d% OAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
% _+ |" O# R: d: P" aspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
' V$ [9 p/ M% |* n3 rplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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' @% t) v- l* y+ ^% V5 [) P# iIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
% i5 r! |6 q2 f$ k/ Ythe sivil servants jump with joy.
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( f) H: {0 }# C( c2 L; w7 D7 P! {The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
& P7 g( H( s( |1 ckonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
" c3 J" T' Z/ r( U* L: H. q& |3 }4 stroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like5 U3 Y) b8 K/ ^1 U1 J
fotograf 20% shorter.
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1 ]% j& i2 e. N o+ p+ zIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
5 J8 a" }% @, t( W* b* V/ oreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible./ J. X% u/ d. ]
( C' } u6 a& K5 s4 _, Z* c. FGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: E$ H, J2 W t6 h! N: f$ a
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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. `/ u$ B3 Z4 I xAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 {( G- [0 C; j
disgrasful and it should go away.' J) r$ Z1 \" R+ }
8 F, z+ P' I8 _; t" R- }$ A! z* rBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with' \- `6 i. y- h; ]6 d6 w, G
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. |3 N" }0 p6 y9 \4 l. [after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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; D. }1 ~' n9 N9 b; ^) ]: GZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" J( w& h1 @8 ~5 F1 G5 qunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 h# H; Q' Z9 Y* u" U. s/ [: g/ D9 xUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze, S$ |+ L {5 o8 R- V* F
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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