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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will9 W1 _) e9 M$ J9 E
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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! s4 B2 F& o* E% w7 gAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
3 D% G+ h. w/ {$ g7 N+ Sspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
w8 i3 ?: N4 [3 Lplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".2 E, y k. i( o- b
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
4 d- @* H9 k/ K) {$ E Uthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
; T+ L! ~; V4 J/ C* Qkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; l& `6 V$ N( Q( [troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like& `1 c6 Z0 c& e9 c% F
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
1 V' |0 ~' f- s" Q) \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
. {3 K: `# z0 {% udisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with R! E; R! Z) Y- d1 v9 J3 z/ _+ [, w
"z" and "w" with "v".
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; l' S% _6 D2 C8 _9 ~2 QDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, t# X& ~/ B+ U/ c J) ~ mafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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! v8 x) O$ ~1 ]6 X& \ KZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
) H h! A9 U0 v9 g5 Y9 U- Xunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
' p n" }* k. N4 V( gUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze# g" i7 o1 Z5 w
forst plas.
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6 C: d' e) p: Q! SIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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