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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
3 _/ }9 ?+ l1 n* |" _* _be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was c; t, ~, E3 J6 M
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$ {- f G4 O J+ V JAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
% b: a% [0 e% y! e. t5 ^: Ispelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
" ?3 P; z" y# Y* Q. Fplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
% ^" q8 i7 Q7 K" ]7 v5 Othe sivil servants jump with joy.
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' |3 k( R+ }; hThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
, o% y$ [% `6 j; `8 P& G7 s ]+ W- \5 xkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.0 \9 U& }; |7 f( x
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
9 X. F, f! [- E9 ptroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like. T. L" x) n6 {5 S5 f0 Q
fotograf 20% shorter.1 W q5 [! s" I/ E1 z
% |2 `) P( E2 R, xIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
4 p; v) T% c9 ~( dreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.; i0 c: j. N# q9 F( l, m. B- r" t
( k% Y/ C. b: H$ N1 BGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
* o/ d3 L0 N, P8 U# V$ Vben a deterent to akurate speling.
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+ R0 _1 ~, C4 m. h! B. W" u% D3 ZAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is, d9 b& S( J9 |/ v1 U
disgrasful and it should go away.) u5 I, k) k4 H2 J* V4 s) } J. x
; x( R* Y" @6 I: h! u# Z: {- rBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with5 B$ [6 A. [7 U7 L3 D: n
"z" and "w" with "v".
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7 i9 }! n" t* V; h7 X6 H) jDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and( ?4 ?7 ~7 e& @/ @$ V8 @" [
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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' S( q+ p) V+ P- z9 kZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu4 C7 ?" p1 S$ ~* R% m
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% A r+ k# j# A. s: K
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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# s- H; k5 H* u8 W. @If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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