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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will0 O: e: s( @0 w, l
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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! {5 m" T# \0 i4 F; t: s. Y. iAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English, S9 n2 S- J' v: {2 o; \. P
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* Y) Z1 ]1 }" N7 Tplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make+ U+ ?1 b3 ^/ O2 e, v6 p& N
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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$ Z4 N# c# D8 o. ~( q5 W. y0 JThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ ^% R0 v3 d- ~8 rkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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" _, Z& z L6 e* LThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the3 [. u$ K' i) r
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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1 p" V; d* W' ^In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
) S) s/ i2 X% A; A9 ^# Vreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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% O- O. C2 p) }' gGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always, p8 _- @0 w5 h+ a/ Z6 l( O% [
ben a deterent to akurate speling.( L) [. T8 k) B- J% F
% ]. h( |* l+ l( e3 g lAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
3 x) V F/ k" S+ M) ldisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 i* l# {- b8 a( X1 z0 j
"z" and "w" with "v".- j/ ]: p/ d8 B9 D K, u ~5 s( L
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
! S0 ~; P: t! M( t2 S) ~) Uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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, k" o) b4 l; u" Y1 j7 R% TZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
* p- {% A" l. u( T; `$ Tunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
6 `4 c0 x3 H9 ?- t) B+ f2 M* A9 v( \Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 h( { u7 w6 b7 X$ I# A7 m! z$ G
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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