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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will8 z( e8 T+ A# B* F* q G4 Z O" v
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was: o! }/ t9 |7 J- {9 p
the other possibility.
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|- k# w1 W$ o( ]% o5 WAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
! ^! L0 E. [" Pspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
- x- m0 V$ y6 S3 p! ~, F$ U) g* Qplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".3 E7 K( B9 T* X% h7 V- A* z# G
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
8 q/ V) B, r, }9 f9 ]2 @9 v$ Athe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up8 l/ X4 K/ [& K5 B$ V- Z
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. _# F4 u2 D2 w6 n8 a8 V, d! t
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 q/ o( [3 V. ]' h4 {2 N# k
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 ^6 Y3 s7 j0 b; o' X5 P8 m
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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# v7 V& @7 N% E5 m; Q' K. i+ VGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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' P: A; J3 j2 o5 ~6 {Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
" _; k8 ?+ d w! q0 ?7 l' r$ ydisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with0 q/ h' f8 g5 D' C
"z" and "w" with "v".+ u7 g7 o/ Z' T1 V6 i* n3 q
+ W2 l) ]1 h8 M9 ?% V( wDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" ^9 e; V7 u) {6 G
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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9 O3 O9 t ~. L4 uZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
5 o( g9 J$ R! V3 U: J- X1 |1 Vunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ r( p- O6 k6 `% r8 Z0 I
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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