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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
I' F l# X, k- N% r* zbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" N0 T, ^. q8 m7 Y8 [8 B
the other possibility.
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/ n$ g8 r/ r, Y; U- ` tAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
, ]6 P6 F$ M) E3 W6 i$ |& y$ Mspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
4 T; d7 q/ e$ _* O yplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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: F7 v8 D; q8 N, j9 X: o/ \4 HIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 {1 w, W: P ?# C' J! e2 J* B
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ n$ W# H3 m; h# ~' T, S+ O. c( E
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.( M' ]& [$ W: _
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4 y3 p3 A* ^6 n7 G& h/ MThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the1 T/ X4 O1 i6 }' x
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to, _3 E, x- r7 ]4 |- B
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
& i" y$ ~0 |+ M5 e0 P/ B& odisgrasful and it should go away.
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; B1 Y$ W" A6 C, A5 XBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with4 G4 } ^+ r J$ T3 R( P5 Y3 `
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
( L7 ^' W% i1 {- t4 ?3 Y5 q+ Y/ h# gafter 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* y- F) U5 I/ O$ r5 P
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
G6 k6 Z0 |% S$ s. HUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze3 o( [5 h( h) b T2 p$ S- \* H
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1 f4 F& H8 V+ X: s! WIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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