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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 W8 Y2 K% b9 ]9 I
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
( s4 I5 q" n# q* X) C. {! d- pspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, K: Y2 w' b! J! }2 T
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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+ Y) r0 n! N2 l; L* BIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
% ^$ ^2 _* q, }! v& F$ E/ Z- E/ t1 Jthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up9 ]% b) H9 n1 Y+ P% V- r
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the! N+ ~3 S" v1 |% k2 E6 y
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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8 m8 N5 a" B N* wIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
; @ t$ Z P: S8 o) A3 |% Creach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always/ J" S. }( F6 h% `6 L8 V7 j; D6 H
ben a deterent to akurate speling. H: \! K/ ]: b! i4 `! Q) [! v. b
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is: p8 \1 L# b2 J0 O4 I5 W
disgrasful and it should go away.4 [, ?/ b" B1 Z; J0 Q
8 u$ f: x8 \* |2 T9 I3 f& GBy 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
) S' V5 \( G' @: s/ D4 hafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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, n/ D$ _ L/ Q; o8 w EZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu+ G n* V; \2 \. Z" S5 j4 S
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
+ F5 B7 `& r: E# |% T& qUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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2 ]0 \% e/ H. x3 C) pIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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