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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
" S w0 H9 b9 N0 ?be 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& }3 i5 k3 ^) r+ V6 K, F7 l+ ~
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
$ |/ @% n; }) k7 x! |* W; jplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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# ?; _4 n. e- ]0 m, K8 }6 }In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 |3 Z ~6 p6 A% e: I" c- v
the sivil servants jump with joy." U$ K8 V. [% h {
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ A* j1 f% K L, o( s; L
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the2 a( i/ G9 d/ u2 Y
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like1 G4 i0 h( G0 F- K# Y
fotograf 20% shorter.
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6 C5 h4 E2 s$ z1 I ]" ^In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
7 E% t3 W: o/ Z3 |3 i; ?( J+ oreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.3 ~( n+ x6 q5 }9 Z; l$ C) ~3 n
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
/ K: U+ o6 H8 X, w- `( cben 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( Y" y# p1 [" X! X% N* c6 ~/ g
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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. I; ^, R- V1 h. HDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and& H2 L3 B' C( P/ x; h
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.' x C9 ~* r" I5 k/ s, a) a5 \
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
3 r1 _: W& @# H, E- p" G$ _understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
! b: p" v- X7 qUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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% D% u, F' A# L# G. V: {! oIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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