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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will# K G; f' K7 K6 V! V) |: D6 T
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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. @6 |1 @) w A, o1 z( E% }3 kAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% [9 [+ Z. }* ]+ x5 ~+ D' A
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
9 ?' z' J5 T8 n# zplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
1 B$ I& X7 S0 d+ R# `' ]! Athe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up8 u' l4 g# x1 `4 g4 ~
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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) y: @% L1 l5 M+ cThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: W' X! R8 }- Z: \& J: Ztroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like( c( T" j6 }2 I
fotograf 20% shorter.5 ^. @7 _1 i; |8 r. n% N
/ j v/ J9 n3 _) w. U! D' ^In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' l, @" x, Y) j. [& ^- I3 h4 C8 `2 L ]1 _reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.6 B0 h- ]4 o0 l$ ^( G) [' ^
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with6 ~- K" H8 {1 _/ j: z
"z" and "w" with "v".; ?/ a! r; {- o$ s2 Z
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and) U! B7 q9 H- {
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 h4 W3 {/ k2 X" i* [7 P
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
6 L/ I& Y/ ]$ ~4 A. HUnd 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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