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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ r: K5 V4 W$ m' e+ 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+ s' R! c% N3 t7 E7 h
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 m9 v+ `2 @4 s/ c
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- R% L2 d9 K+ h, r; R6 B
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
) U: C# B) S, h, ]& nthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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2 B/ A8 v9 ]' q( {The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
4 {/ ?/ r1 t2 u% Skonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 k* q5 P2 ^7 Ztroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to4 O; {0 h3 B% L: T
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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! J2 }3 ~2 F. {Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& r: U+ d/ ^( [) F4 h. v' }
ben a deterent to akurate speling.- o7 ^8 Y' M7 ], A' ~. y
2 D( b- h1 k% i8 CAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
% O) G0 b; {9 u# j5 s @5 }disgrasful and it should go away., c; i* G0 ?6 k1 I8 q& W h
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
7 T# I- R: F+ ~after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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* Z2 P9 X3 N% OZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu# ^: H( G1 ~! q$ e) U. G% ]
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.# O# v) Y' a: d. D& I
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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- Z; q- b3 A0 {6 L# J: v3 IIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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