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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
: q/ p0 @6 N `* T3 L5 tbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was/ W' j7 Y7 E% a9 ^
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
& r7 r1 ~9 f1 vspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
9 @# C0 t- R( f9 x5 M$ Jplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"., r+ ~4 [, o4 I8 |2 `* h
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make* I5 D o4 X; c$ f+ x2 G% g
the sivil servants jump with joy.. d' a* D. n8 ~4 _# b7 g% ?- _2 g" ^# F
/ a) s6 `0 }' \8 \/ ]The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up1 W: \& s; ^, {1 x
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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' d' q1 }; G3 y* A7 }/ o- RThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the) [6 D+ U! Q, A8 R
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like3 e8 {. y- h8 [* u
fotograf 20% shorter.$ v2 s L) p( [! \9 J3 g: d
' i. Y, z9 h4 s( _# QIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
1 x/ z! `8 r. ]; Ereach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: s/ a. V+ b d$ D
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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# d. q! I \4 A' B/ s9 A& z2 UAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is8 c# U$ M5 }! T9 {9 @6 H6 x {/ o4 M
disgrasful and it should go away.
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% v/ _4 P5 Y0 q: Q- t5 OBy 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& G, }; R1 D0 K" Y# f
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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( ^! K4 _' b& @. rZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu# M2 m3 @' H4 H# i
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
' |' K3 K" X/ _* W. |( hUnd 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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