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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
8 Q7 W. Y) X! s, r( ~8 ~: ?+ _be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was& W( A( ^, U# p$ p X( S! K: i
the other possibility.
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, D5 E; f; H' @6 t O# I5 AAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English: `5 B; G9 e5 ?" J" t- N
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
/ \" y# b N' u+ _plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".: n- z/ D# U; k6 { I1 t
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
5 |: ~8 ?) Z+ v- wthe sivil servants jump with joy.. c C8 a5 E3 }( a2 ?2 {1 M9 S7 C
( t' L( j* m( Q! s* LThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
0 I; g1 G1 l9 m* c- }konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter." }) C! f1 i2 T9 D0 z
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
$ W$ W( T( H# Ntroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
/ j! z) C q& `# T% R# ifotograf 20% shorter.
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! B: n3 A: D; oIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 Z! x; C% K' greach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
' d# @8 c; Y# l5 Xben a deterent to akurate speling.
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6 [# v/ N, ^' SAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
3 G$ n' Y8 o, D! I* _disgrasful and it should go away.
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: X3 D3 d3 k; K1 [ PBy 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
. W" L( U) p: |% Yafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 r! \( t5 i+ T% o& P. D8 I; Q' P3 T
' r, n- o6 Z, C; D2 L7 GZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
# M8 e# o# g2 P x0 ?& ~/ X9 Eunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.2 A3 Q( k% m& x0 j* L1 @
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 I& X0 H0 T# Z3 O k: [
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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