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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will9 ^3 j2 y/ ]4 F3 T& |! ?
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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* x+ {, U9 ]) Y7 l; XAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English0 z& M& A+ r6 M" l
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& s4 Y0 j9 T$ O) {) b" |' J9 hplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make1 v5 R; C) e& @( y8 r1 {
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up. m) [/ \6 n! V3 ` p* e
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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: O1 r4 J3 x/ ?2 Y) r4 P/ NThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the! r. ~4 r! j! z* e$ M) w
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
! b z% \. f' X" J Y5 O4 [fotograf 20% shorter.
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% X' {7 m3 k2 a" y3 zIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) M1 \" S, e5 t5 `
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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' A: d9 k$ n5 s# W+ ?Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
p' t z8 j) M" e, L" e( xben a deterent to akurate speling.
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/ x7 M/ O6 ~; HAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is7 Q6 T6 j5 A" c; a+ K$ Z1 i
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# `3 B1 D4 F" j4 D4 E! a9 O
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, M S( J8 D# p3 @+ X, h: `4 g; nafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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8 P2 E1 W' v* z/ t. k, v9 f) EZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu E7 [( t5 J! Y
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru., `- K* l, ^. s, Y9 [ k8 D2 T
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 V4 `3 j1 b2 [
forst plas.
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! k2 i2 i4 x$ `If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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