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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
3 ~3 e; s: G2 N9 b5 [* {be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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J! w7 |# N; k6 l0 lAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
+ E- o5 Q- e& c; Fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in3 Y2 p8 Q0 G' D( T/ G
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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1 U9 S- o7 z& ~- _In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 Y) i) d1 A4 h. c: g, B6 F
the sivil servants jump with joy.' Z7 ^3 H, N5 ~, q6 u
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
1 S: K, F0 w+ F( i, f c" nkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.% V5 w; z9 S; ]
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the9 A8 M% O* i7 P5 S, X4 l
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
) y! {6 [. O; H7 u7 xreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.1 z8 l; ?5 n4 y/ H5 Z1 g# Y
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
9 e7 a9 o; j* Lben a deterent to akurate speling.
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- [5 K' Z! u) n I) cAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
$ V p! e6 [7 O1 k* h( h1 z/ ldisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with V' L# V" K4 h+ \
"z" and "w" with "v".
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% U! V9 N2 q, KDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and$ x- ~& C$ g7 [
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu8 G; X' l+ ?" K# M) e
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 Z2 H! q2 n* o. `Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze. G# N- f% \6 X y2 u# ]
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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