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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will }; l, i% I& e
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$ A' [; M3 L7 w" P3 X
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
' u; ^# }$ b7 J% t0 P) [plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".9 G' D% |) r$ v9 D! s8 }4 H
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 A$ V- R1 O0 a( e9 L- i
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ X* \/ [. x; X' P( E; gkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.5 U, g$ c8 y- O
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6 j2 A8 \, V- TThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: v3 e' C/ x% x0 Z4 a3 Etroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like# `9 o p2 ^5 j0 s1 z0 X
fotograf 20% shorter.& }% G! w8 ~0 h- r8 B
. K( l: z0 T5 t1 wIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
% K! [' X, ~( S8 k& ?reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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9 o7 p& d2 Z# S8 d; EGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
6 @" w7 Y& b0 f) R2 uben a deterent to akurate speling.
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# Q* ~! x& q* |1 V, X. t( J qAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
/ J5 ?* }: T" H4 Adisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with4 R; j' S% j3 \
"z" and "w" with "v".9 O% v- |5 o) o b
V, J0 W1 t0 r8 rDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and) h) L4 X8 n- W- q
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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0 h% ?5 {1 y) c% O. T I2 QZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
: T+ X: O, Y* nunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
6 T0 _6 h1 w5 z1 b$ n# i/ T7 @Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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' p$ G4 I; O( u; [! a( GIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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