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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
) l' l" _+ \/ Obe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
! i" E2 o# R1 i+ n- f0 Bthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. W! l) |+ R! _3 U3 q$ U$ N/ S
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
7 t6 [7 Y/ r) O& a8 m* ?plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 R0 u0 w0 S4 L* v/ t5 o
$ q! Y% Y9 v4 v- Q- ~6 [8 |In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make$ }: l2 f7 J' z/ L0 O
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up9 R, F B3 a% U& ~
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.$ P! o- f- S* ]
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0 a Z; i6 R* t9 D( b0 d7 m2 xThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: l A* B, [# J( u& I
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, J0 v! O w+ x: [fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to2 H% j% _' w" c
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" [$ o9 x2 }3 h9 f q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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3 A5 {* ^1 ~/ Y* PAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is r( E; X7 X# s9 H$ ^
disgrasful and it should go away.
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; z$ B, k: a& L* {" pBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
@" q% |" \+ r* v; t"z" and "w" with "v".: \( O' V) X6 C. @
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and l1 K* M, V9 R- z. F
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
+ W- ]' ^; O. g# n( G7 |0 Hunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.' U& f3 W# n9 P/ M2 T2 ^3 \ i1 {
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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}3 O9 ]; V2 D, g& IIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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