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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
' f$ G( I7 p% p! t! G# [ q$ Jbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was) D" r" I5 u9 P5 z% X0 L7 g5 |
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English# T% ?0 N$ r, G0 V3 u* X7 |
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
/ B' X, n+ g3 J! X0 X/ }+ Splan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% |& W6 n( w7 e" b3 v
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
; d4 m0 L% ~0 _; p: X& h( n2 [* pthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up w3 F; i+ \" _& f
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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2 T6 p. B$ W! `7 C5 q4 ZThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: W R- ]- ^3 K1 j7 etroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like: [( E" b$ v1 l4 d
fotograf 20% shorter.* ]! ?& m! r4 M2 c# e
, Z# P+ X! P* j* a# _In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ B J& J2 h4 m! N; i4 }reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.6 f4 I! Z; Z3 v; h& a2 O
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
* x2 T# u; m& M! `( X% j6 Kben a deterent to akurate speling.
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& I, I4 o% V: r6 pAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is7 I' r8 ~) t, P
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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8 v; O1 _' C& Z- {5 eDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and M& ~0 x- g t; W" o" I! g7 E
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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3 a& n8 O/ L) d: P! KZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu9 i! G: y" \6 d0 i
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% m" H m' |& q3 V. ?$ n+ [ l& K. i
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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+ C) k ?) U& U5 k) f+ `; \If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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