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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
4 `4 T6 f$ Q1 x7 L# u( v2 vbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" l" b: @. D' O' H1 ^6 ^
the other possibility.
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2 M3 C: d" ~& u9 d4 b+ \0 DAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English# o" L% Z3 W' X
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* ]. j! z; }& d( L# a8 g. y9 Qplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".2 t7 u: o. T4 |7 m& j0 y3 I6 Y
# l) l) ~1 S; V u0 ~In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make; o$ k3 |9 s& |
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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9 ^2 \. ~6 G6 F: w) RThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
* q) z, ^2 y* x1 f3 `2 s/ Bkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.% f0 f% U8 [6 u
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- S( T7 Q$ Q- Y$ }, @7 U" c$ sThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the+ _& ~8 [- t; B. f: X+ P7 P5 K) e' [
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like: r! B- a: {$ d" Z3 Q+ ?0 C
fotograf 20% shorter.$ S7 u' C$ e6 b [
2 o/ ]' [- Y+ [In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# _- J5 o4 H( Q! w
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.) N' d& Y0 \4 y; y$ G; q2 t) Z. g
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
. [4 Z* x9 J; s& cben a deterent to akurate speling.
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; k0 R0 P- y" AAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
, B* Z6 s6 B1 c. i3 jdisgrasful and it should go away.1 f5 R( L" q4 ^ Q5 E4 e' N
0 r' _8 \9 q8 U$ f6 NBy 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
- L. g& F) t/ ?7 Iafter 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
5 D( f6 D2 {# R2 R! h& O* [( ~' Xunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
" d1 R5 n& o$ T5 n/ }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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