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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
" c! j0 U& E4 J8 Z6 Vbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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- p9 h! @0 v* g& X3 s& mAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 |% l! _2 H7 N z( @9 Hspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in& N5 }# s% b7 ~9 v
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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& z7 @5 j. I8 b) x3 Z8 U; E8 Z3 OIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make p2 R- V) h$ }
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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8 }3 K' Z# C/ B2 w0 {, b/ P, f9 rThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ L7 [' c0 a5 p6 j/ |% `
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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. t& [$ u" H9 T' b+ uThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
( l$ }( b3 l/ ~1 _troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like+ |" w3 J: H3 g6 S
fotograf 20% shorter.6 v% h$ h4 e x2 a r' x' j
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to8 P7 E2 z' Y( L! j7 n% V" T
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.) M J( S7 ?! l% i q2 d9 ?& E
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# k/ i; b" V) q+ p5 L
ben a deterent to akurate speling.8 l! ^. ^; F+ m3 n
, ]5 r/ m o# z; Q6 FAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
- G) G$ q! |, r( [disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with8 B+ D' l5 ^) m- U; B' v8 x% ?% i
"z" and "w" with "v".: E: j7 }. n, ^) s! V9 K
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* @' e$ z& e1 j4 r# B* e) w$ rafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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) N4 S/ Y( [- MZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu, N5 v0 Y1 x# _( J7 y# B* h; N3 U' v
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.7 G) l. k8 D6 b; t# X Z: ]# x/ y, C4 \) I
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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