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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
: `: b9 \' y: S o6 ~- v9 dbe 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! E: f7 e D# Y# v9 `1 |/ h, s2 e; g
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 @1 J# @$ C+ e6 a& r$ \
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up B$ o& k5 R+ r' u/ g* K0 Z0 u. {
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.( k8 D% A- [2 [+ H1 t. x& R
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( Z! v K6 w9 e$ FThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the8 D7 x; U @" C" O+ j9 | A
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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% U l* B1 c; @+ vIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ Z: D1 h4 s' Q( D. `: v) Preach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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8 O# o& J" c! H1 [5 U6 x( W. UAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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, `: P% v& p, I' H6 M" P) D; ^By 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"and7 B- {% a5 }) H; c/ h$ s
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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2 ?0 T' h) k# t8 IZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. Z! J. ^% X3 [' w$ _understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru." {: n$ K6 i3 u4 N: ~$ p( J
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze9 n/ W1 `1 b1 q; Y
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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