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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! d4 u( a1 W1 d3 Q
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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; N5 e+ g2 _% X+ X7 D* }+ lAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
/ q* N( X0 N+ g, z* V4 z& Zspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
! L, o6 d" U! h) R& Qplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% d3 h$ R0 b5 X/ R+ P. O0 ?
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make ?7 [2 E9 k- c r
the sivil servants jump with joy., a$ w9 B% _/ A( g5 E
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
1 k2 I. c4 T5 R6 s% }2 }6 [konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., r5 {0 B8 ^' _# a, T0 Q( ` d
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; P8 Y! C* p! j8 k; w3 o6 \There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the8 _ m5 _: U) u# @& H
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to; z# ?# x+ E* j, ]1 u/ ?
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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+ w9 g) `! d5 Q* UGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% I, d" J1 \& B# m6 U3 }
ben a deterent to akurate speling.* W7 V+ O: m# j/ z3 j% {
! f( ~! O# L8 t4 S3 l3 ~Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
5 a6 B6 l4 {. m: t- o; tdisgrasful and it should go away.: L3 T3 j; U7 B: S
+ Q6 c z& Y9 n. y' XBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
% @. y! N" ]- n2 T2 b"z" and "w" with "v".0 m7 B3 `5 _" H9 t7 g, @& S4 q
$ I7 T$ s, B4 N2 HDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
! Q& o9 O2 g; V9 R8 ^after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) z8 K+ g2 M/ M+ D6 N2 h& y
; y3 s9 k. ]3 j3 ^1 IZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. z: ?! C1 k! C: k) ]understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.* n3 s% i' V2 d; z0 N( C, y
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze5 v( S2 H2 d9 u& [
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4 B/ U+ U/ f: ?; K. K" GIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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