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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will, ^$ u9 N- o& t' i% }2 L, d
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was) R: D* u% n! k! g
the other possibility.
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+ U; d( C/ N0 _. }As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
7 I: Q- z7 \+ x/ o/ vspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
3 C, e. ]0 p5 J! }* n+ B7 bplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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3 ^- {) S+ `1 oIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
6 W# Q: g, s( X, ~ f- ithe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
& d) Y E1 [6 T" k5 Jkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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3 d; e- ~9 L z) sThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the1 p7 l! a9 f# x
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like8 r8 r7 E% q6 i o! o- e
fotograf 20% shorter.
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: K) w1 L# X) c* m6 b$ f) VIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
) W4 S. E& ~& U; W) Z2 greach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: c0 {$ o4 O5 w8 v( i3 m: M X
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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- y! T4 y5 Z. o2 MAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is) g" U' F% Z" {# D8 O- l" J
disgrasful and it should go away.2 z% J) e* ^$ A$ e: k# y
2 N2 ~( c: Z3 Y* w+ F: j9 Q2 vBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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: A+ {, y2 @; p' }; zDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 t) e& [6 R+ ^( Bafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.: j2 B4 q1 I" u
% h, Z; | ?) x: [! IZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: `6 Y, R6 Q* X d% n$ L% M
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
" J5 v5 \. H8 ^ h( l. Q% KUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze5 J( N! `* s/ d( \) o
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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