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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
L/ t# E0 x5 X' a' @be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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3 C; A* D( o; T+ e. uAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
9 O3 h/ j2 S9 J9 z2 Wspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 i' W- K- ^6 H2 D: o% n. L
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".1 b$ C4 d1 g1 D) Y
% R8 s& N" Z' U2 ?/ ~In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
9 f7 ^3 Q4 Y+ k- E' _& o) D8 ithe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
, E7 e. P0 B5 X: P4 Tkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.2 k# t; g+ A. W' F z% D! n) @' [) A
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 d, p3 a* y1 \: _
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like7 E. M2 q4 D; u# v1 U4 s- w, E
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
# A0 H; G1 I, v2 treach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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, n* Q* Z8 z5 \% n# b4 v& ?Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
K& d. e) X. d! R- U" B5 rben 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
" L/ r7 _4 _6 h1 w& E9 n$ ydisgrasful and it should go away.
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3 C# V5 `( N( ^5 }* dBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
/ n/ B' P' l, }! O4 l9 A: x1 s"z" and "w" with "v".
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* d2 {( r0 r V; ^/ I) Y0 u: xDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 H4 x; k, D9 q/ H! [6 S! Wafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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" R2 K& x, P8 FZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu- R: {7 u* G: h' w
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
# N5 s+ L* ? ]4 X4 Z* E; cUnd 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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