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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
5 V3 o# T7 `% K2 Abe 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) h. z! a7 K4 B" ^) E
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% D; S# B: j6 i& B/ N; t, j0 w
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".: e/ Y3 Q5 L* Y5 [! c! w) z
+ y* F) Y2 ^+ g2 h! I/ A) bIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
! j4 Q9 ]/ i( g6 D& Ithe sivil servants jump with joy.
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* l$ V: R7 Y, _ S- A; BThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
6 o4 A8 I/ K: c9 akonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ A( ?' G8 `8 f
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: C( m$ Z z2 V: t# a1 y
troublesome "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 to
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always$ m0 p# e& z5 g, |: j& ~
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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9 _6 H# e0 s3 _( n# JAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
: [- B( P, T/ o6 u2 s0 Q/ h' M4 ndisgrasful 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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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, L: s- ^5 @$ lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 F0 C, B$ y- O/ p9 C i7 Z
% W& a$ {# u1 o8 l3 U) TZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu. M1 U) \& x" A/ s7 D Z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.! T9 J8 g' j- ]
Und 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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