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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will* Q) u2 w2 p6 e) y9 a8 N7 Q
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
- G3 `- B7 T8 F- L) F0 Y" B Ethe other possibility.- J9 t: p6 N: @( `2 c
" p% e A+ D$ oAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English# J" d/ q# w {% J% I8 b
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
8 o' a+ ~" u( |7 @3 q9 ?plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% D" p! u2 f* a: l9 h, V7 e* T
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
: f' o. Z+ A5 }! zthe sivil servants jump with joy.7 N$ o* J' @# ?8 n
+ b6 l: \; \% b* z1 ^5 }5 x) TThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
& @+ Q2 j3 z4 _/ Ckonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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N. [0 [& T) A, CThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& @- R' H5 q$ }/ R
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like3 y) a- f3 Y3 g! t) s
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
- J$ S7 q4 e2 T: W; Ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 R. x( g1 D8 k( ?( f3 m+ c
) H2 f! B* A/ yGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always+ K r' H6 \- z1 w
ben 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
0 }& X4 n/ q- fdisgrasful and it should go away.6 V+ {4 p, T+ j
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
" s F0 W- `, c" k"z" and "w" with "v"., Z _( c5 @* I
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
% |' `0 F& B+ Q/ `: ^4 I! safter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu! v$ s M$ m1 U& a8 k) W/ b
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.6 ]5 U6 w+ T: R g5 |
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze; D& S! b+ W6 P8 ?8 M( Y) D
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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