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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
# i5 ?: \, w( _be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was- j$ }% F3 X: h, P5 g: Z
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( s& e; e+ Z$ k/ o1 K$ i9 e3 iAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English* _4 n) i, z; o; `
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ Q8 g' w9 y- m* K' q
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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* c( I6 L; M; e9 l) e3 ]In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make: |, a8 F: V) D$ c
the sivil servants jump with joy.& r# { W* d; u8 F6 t$ A4 t; e
# Q/ ^ k8 d5 w& O& J. IThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: r4 T: C& O5 Q; R& Q
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.7 G, [/ L+ _' i7 \/ W) X
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9 D1 c; Q9 L5 _& M% ]$ r( p: iThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
( g/ N* `: q8 f i& a1 ]troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like' b8 S( d% \6 U7 h! }: K a& g
fotograf 20% shorter.
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- d9 I' z& @, @8 ]# s% M3 mIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to6 I) C. H: ?9 Y' `- b5 U+ F
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: ]$ T% m$ u8 q9 W. b) \4 _4 W
! F# y2 N0 q; u6 h1 ^# C3 a% n5 JGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: g( M/ ^+ { w1 @9 }7 j. {
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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( A' N- W6 f3 o) j7 FAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is( ?# g8 W1 v2 K# z. R
disgrasful and it should go away.% ?) [& F s2 U( Z9 `$ w% ~$ g* C
% F& c5 m2 V& }. I! SBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with0 w! N" H9 Q2 O8 k' x# S1 L
"z" and "w" with "v".; C, O4 K: s: Z+ }: p$ B
3 b+ }3 R4 x7 m, u! l, N0 xDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
' Z5 [3 Q" e; ?/ H' t6 E) J' Iafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl./ F& j: b+ A' A$ J+ l' @! y3 }. e
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
; e2 ^1 s; F: {2 a6 i5 S. Dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.+ b+ K* C9 E3 l9 C
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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