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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
- @# U; C. m. q* T9 S. J1 zbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was0 V' ^8 B) f5 I$ ^
the other possibility.
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1 o+ N& N- j8 q5 ]' DAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
J4 G% I/ X7 r: S( S% @1 j& Espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& {# g: t- e0 W' v1 Gplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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, [! k4 X, Y+ O* s* D" zThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up! _$ _0 x/ Y! P( z! f' _: {
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the0 i! i$ C7 W' h. I
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
; C# [4 z. Q: ~9 |0 R# Y8 _fotograf 20% shorter.4 j% F2 y9 A) @1 ]9 d
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
4 L# A! G0 D6 {: \, ?) H" Yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.8 d2 U( i0 u" X0 Q g: e
7 X% b5 ]. F, I5 ^! @2 x8 VGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always. l% v3 J/ b% ?& ^& w* z
ben a deterent to akurate speling.) }; u, e/ a5 l. p+ {5 T
+ `: W3 T$ E- y8 Y7 W" R" lAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is% i$ e. m: ]3 K7 u, L
disgrasful and it should go away.6 g* E2 \& \+ a1 v p" |$ T9 I
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with$ O5 f7 e% V: X0 Z5 T3 i! E
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
& l+ A# K0 Z' Y/ Lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.5 J% K! U2 \' C' d: b! F
# o. t( X4 x7 u( E; h% v' f7 MZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. L7 a. ]( w1 K5 }) [* v; _understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.7 _ \5 t/ w$ _; H, I! l
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze, k# M6 `3 d4 [* [, Y
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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