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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 z0 S* ?: m: [3 [
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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! @5 v8 ?% B8 t Y8 |As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English T' V- C9 L0 F7 c/ ~. _
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 x3 @0 h( G# a: L2 W0 {; B7 M6 k
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 O9 t8 E) K1 _ l3 d
1 i; S% \3 b4 `8 q0 t% i& o/ WIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up9 |$ y- R8 M; k+ U0 k2 j! G+ G! T
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the( s* ]8 K2 N; a+ U2 q
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
: U0 }4 T; g- ^6 U x+ M4 u6 Kfotograf 20% shorter.
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* C L& A( H4 U- KIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to5 w2 g6 D9 g' @4 @; b/ j
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: c: V% R( S1 ]% W2 r2 e9 p
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always, Z4 l5 M' ^4 u, u# ]& H
ben a deterent to akurate speling.% x+ u) X: D: | _$ }' `
6 c. c$ g) ^+ n3 HAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
. T5 D6 |5 ~. J: |5 t- G+ ^0 Q( Hdisgrasful and it should go away.4 H- |. y) E. r
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with' C8 I( n F4 n/ _& C: }
"z" and "w" with "v".) I" N9 R2 V h+ |' u) W) U, @
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and* C5 w2 C: i( P @# i b0 D
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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2 i4 n8 p I- a* N. `1 [Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu A$ \$ l3 T6 q- G4 N9 M
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
3 L: Y! @3 d+ R- X( m6 }Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze% Q+ J! Q/ | S! m. M
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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