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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
5 b+ r7 S1 P! s, f: D) Lbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
, p: n( S% h! J* Q7 S% Lthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English& n' M) e+ a$ p0 y X0 A* ?
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
% X; p# s% Q" c1 P1 wplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".1 f7 D, B' S/ r# O* a; ]
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! ~; z5 M+ t0 P* b- G) C' Y+ Z
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; t9 _" D' u! @+ v! Q8 u4 n
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 w i7 Z" R: f- b$ C' ~) x; C% w
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3 X, _& G+ ] k5 ^) bThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
) H6 k- J' b) T0 _0 Mtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like+ d* [5 T4 s% {
fotograf 20% shorter. L& B- a8 Q7 B& K- o# f4 b9 W' ^
$ O, [4 F+ ~7 r, S8 F' f+ _7 |In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to5 D; E( V5 g; ?+ S
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 e! `- P' W3 \( E
' s, z$ O! K" d* eGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
1 K9 u/ ~. T: W) T: z! G4 s1 Fben a deterent to akurate speling. z0 x! q% o9 s. P
& q9 r( G+ y; h3 v) l5 q* ?, @8 IAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
% r& [) \0 J+ I5 F* [# [disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
' d3 y% a7 v4 i: M9 \after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; p: p) `5 Q1 C) M3 F8 _
! {' p3 T* q& H+ O- v; A; Q' sZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu" i3 W) l. A S9 C5 h: S) M- m x
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.: R; k. ^3 n( h# L: }3 s% d7 ^
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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