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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will V+ E) j z. u, k6 D
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
5 i) R, Q* O& R9 ?the other possibility.
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, e* K3 E1 Z& vAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
6 j6 M6 } X3 o/ z) K$ j' y, k9 U6 aspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in3 {( s8 U/ [% H8 J2 n1 k/ Z3 M8 h
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".: g# X2 z' W; j: Z8 a0 H2 D9 G
) ]1 d! K. O! ?- i" W% |9 `In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
* q# E9 N0 w; C" W) [the sivil servants jump with joy.% W% q. F8 v- P. D- E
4 |2 ~, D# n& a3 ^The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
. E. A7 Z; X0 P W/ {# M6 N5 Xkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.5 a9 e- j# A3 a4 L
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
" r" O3 j8 | ^6 ^troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 r& ? T& E; ~5 F: _fotograf 20% shorter.
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# O$ a- C) [: M2 W* U5 LIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# H4 S/ ?6 J) _# l: p# J6 ^
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% [9 D4 Y. G3 [' b' q, c& z
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
5 z5 f- e$ f2 T% @7 |disgrasful and it should go away.
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/ k6 f! m7 Z6 r5 S8 I: nBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 B5 U; ^, W: T @. a
"z" and "w" with "v".' T7 V* G( V% p/ I4 d; T5 |
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and% }3 L' M9 k% H8 ]
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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* |3 C$ r7 i& h" |Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu& H& C8 \% U# \# H: M
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
. c1 j4 { P/ x* |5 L, d7 h, ?3 ^Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 j w X Z( {7 \. \$ l
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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