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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ I U7 Z: s, Y1 ?# ?
be 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
, a6 T$ U# U; v" @) ]* r2 u4 Gspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% g5 B$ k% a6 ?
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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6 l3 y/ B/ D- d# z/ j# b( RIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make) c1 r' y }) J5 B
the sivil servants jump with joy.# a& E* b/ m* t F! z- e
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
) H; E& p7 _9 i7 D! c+ ~konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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2 Q' Y( Z/ e+ ?* ]There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the1 Q% h8 m3 t/ `$ l
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
6 F' E# {' c; L' \4 T# Yfotograf 20% shorter.
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! S: {! q6 a: S& z9 AIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
) y9 k6 g# I4 [reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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1 y# w: I4 B* e% i7 q* IGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
$ w1 ~4 t" O+ a# I7 p& n: z! ?ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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0 ?1 z& T- C0 |4 p7 v0 sAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
4 I7 {1 g. T; j6 z6 l1 J. j( R7 ~$ Ldisgrasful and it should go away.
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- P+ x5 s; E: o; mBy 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
) s: e, T( `, G4 H( t( v( [3 d* |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" C+ V6 Z- C9 d5 C$ U2 {0 P M
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
9 S7 k9 l1 E- wUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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" j! Q$ |6 Y7 m, j5 B0 a* aIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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