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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will2 A9 M: i" @; D
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ P. k6 f5 V4 L* `
the other possibility.: @! L- o: n# M1 G: u {
, m. Q3 X% t: {" `As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English' M; o' S# ^! K' A; M- A
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ K* J9 b! Q$ ?- f6 W
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".6 }* e7 m& A& ?0 a$ n) S! I
9 j3 H% K1 t* m0 x, b- D6 mIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make% X; f- @7 f: N9 t. d( j: t
the sivil servants jump with joy.! ?- [& A8 \) ^4 g3 [3 [& f' d
3 H t0 p1 T* p1 {* b' j) }The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
4 U7 {* S$ J2 j+ M) skonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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4 o+ Q8 p( S. G( X1 IThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; G+ W4 _ k l/ Ctroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 F+ a& G& O( G! ?3 R" S' f, efotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 I& }7 s% P, B) Q) E" nreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.. z5 V0 D) R/ Z8 A/ e8 C, B
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always+ L) Y( o5 B* ^1 W$ {6 \$ I" b! X1 {
ben a deterent to akurate speling.9 Q# g- L; \+ X4 |8 ^& \( |( X/ n
' V4 c$ `1 \ B0 qAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
8 F# O4 q1 N6 o$ Bdisgrasful and it should go away.$ t# ^* O5 r3 ]- {5 T `
5 z, w" b% q3 x8 J6 HBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with/ U' x# o6 @6 L+ E% P' `
"z" and "w" with "v".
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4 {. C [; Y- r" q; s8 PDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and2 O1 O7 b2 y: K8 }
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.' b6 h0 `4 b3 l: L) {, F' M, m; h
8 ^) s. C8 t- sZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
5 m4 N3 s4 S% X L) j( Runderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- D6 R( [. b: z3 l
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze+ \& @+ h% J# b. f% I+ j
forst plas.
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O) I& Z: C2 K5 m6 l# ^If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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