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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, m/ R( M" y3 e$ X! _7 y7 q5 kbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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8 Y6 u- e, L# }As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
# m$ q( D" m2 s5 B' rspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
7 `, s1 [( j: o9 Mplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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! w) k8 s1 w0 y1 D: `" ?In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
% U/ i8 I8 _- H* Hthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
4 k9 [1 m( Y3 Bkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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1 m, ]: }7 C6 R' Q- P4 bThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 F3 E! b1 ]7 U9 A4 @8 R0 ]. {troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
8 b8 I! ~& I e& O& s2 Jfotograf 20% shorter.! F- T. J! ]6 E2 ?. t$ F! z. S
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
5 R& y' j6 r5 a7 Ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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. D& P, ~' |0 I* T4 [( K3 J5 ]Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
& Z$ T3 ~& s, \2 Hben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
# A/ `" J! F- H$ wdisgrasful and it should go away.
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: J5 M: C( v+ _0 r2 Q0 ]5 h* p0 ZBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% e$ v1 M0 G2 g% v0 ^
"z" and "w" with "v".
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5 |! n2 P4 N0 A* l$ rDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and7 b( D/ W, |! y
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.* J9 h, u! L7 ?1 B( N; C
: x7 }4 p/ L* H6 L- f5 yZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu5 r$ D0 U" b' ~3 E7 V; r3 D
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.5 a# {: o; f" @9 L
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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) s5 [( `2 w3 zIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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