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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will6 D# u6 v, h* B) D, O
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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# R# [: `3 i2 Q4 W9 H5 EAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. E; b, L# O$ ]: i) j
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in9 q' J: O' h: Y- \! }
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
/ h$ ]' F2 K, r u5 I. pthe sivil servants jump with joy.+ Y) O0 y2 w0 s3 Z* g u, ^
5 m( ]6 q! H O) F, FThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; p6 _, L; W1 m0 V' U
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.8 @- |! K. ~9 P8 ~ G
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9 N1 Y6 w2 @6 F" m2 wThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, Q0 }4 a) ~- K2 w, Z! ?troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like3 N4 V& J. N2 L& n
fotograf 20% shorter.5 \* s. `+ _9 v+ L. W8 o
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to/ s( @5 s- p, P4 n' s9 @
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- g# {; i, \7 p" k2 D
9 F, o) i6 \* n" r! NGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
. R i2 Y& }/ vben a deterent to akurate speling.
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7 J6 |+ }' Z! l7 ?Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is; V% Z9 M$ ~* E- C7 ~/ Z
disgrasful and it should go away.1 m' N7 ~* @" f0 v* q- A: N! b
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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"and1 c: c& S- O- Y6 b9 K: T
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., A6 g2 n6 Z, T' G G
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
# C, o# M! r7 q( hunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; g- t: g- k' LUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze/ a. p% G7 m0 t! d5 \8 S4 J* D" F
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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