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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
: l2 o! T4 J2 rbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was: _" @- F. @8 |4 o) ^) _/ `
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& s& c; q# n. T" _4 tAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
. R7 w4 z% \6 I$ d3 Z& I2 I- U, Rspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
$ h' U6 k0 ]2 G3 Yplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".2 Y; L: H. M1 m+ a$ A7 i' J
( O( A9 s/ c, E- KIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up! k( E8 M; k, |* v
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
3 a' H5 e, ~5 @ g' Y. Q3 J0 H' Wtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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7 A( q* A4 h; ]In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to6 L5 A* ]( f# D
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is9 X/ K. l& o* h/ \/ `6 o3 v) d
disgrasful and it should go away.
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1 a8 F9 ?# c0 c, A- h5 w& KBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
2 d" f8 U: M! T$ C2 Y2 kafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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9 b3 r7 C F" F2 B& WZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu- _3 S8 Q! h' u$ Y" U# ? n, }
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru./ ] R0 h! R2 B3 v
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze; T# v' F0 X% H3 ^) E
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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