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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ x/ |$ T" n4 b; D% q5 y K
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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* N6 J0 H* Y+ D2 f8 Y, CAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English/ |% r. q) g! t3 C H
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
8 u6 ?, Z L G1 |- ]* V, aplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".6 t4 G/ H0 m+ m8 _5 m! P5 D- p
- I% X( I7 f0 E; @In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make: o4 n; `5 t0 X) n" O& V
the sivil servants jump with joy.- o. z& Q$ k4 ?; Z# _5 Z n
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up' T, n" N+ L3 c7 B, b
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
! k1 T2 D- X1 \* Dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like- D" ?5 O# _: s- w7 P) p
fotograf 20% shorter.
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4 p4 Y. @; }" L) i) dIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
$ N1 j( G* y8 S M4 w8 Rreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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! n. p' v' M) V6 UGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* P9 ? m% g1 x/ B/ D7 E
ben a deterent to akurate speling.: ]) D6 ]- j) f8 a* N
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is% E0 ]) j, j; {- |
disgrasful and it should go away./ b% B6 j4 x. F- c7 W5 [1 U2 U
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
6 ^( O+ G5 f3 n" z; N"z" and "w" with "v".& p9 l& V% m! j
; y/ q$ b+ I2 s& ^2 s5 [During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ E/ B3 }* m! h! i- L% y4 l, t* {after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 X% L$ r# J3 S- U/ a4 ^4 O( @
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& d7 H7 m6 B1 K1 s0 ounderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ K. |: Q* V: v( Z" f$ D: ?
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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' J! M2 n% V6 u. H7 E8 c7 i9 yIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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