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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will: L4 M/ G2 M! E4 n2 s
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was W* j @) j* n$ s/ r0 Z9 O. ^3 c
the other possibility.
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/ S i& z1 j$ a" RAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English' y+ I. f0 D# t/ y2 D7 C
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
9 j8 N8 `+ `" Z1 Pplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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6 p5 ~0 `7 W. J' VIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
5 [6 V/ |4 Z. t, C \' c3 gthe sivil servants jump with joy.9 Y3 A6 d7 ?0 o! Q" Q
4 I5 h: ]* S/ KThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
/ I! G" O- r) ^" j7 t7 |konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the3 [$ C4 Z4 b8 T4 u
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like, `6 m1 ]' m- O
fotograf 20% shorter.
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; |0 T8 j4 @" d/ B- p+ O6 WIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
4 t0 a( X5 d* R) ?6 K3 vreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: s; u3 o" f/ X# Y4 u
/ ?$ q8 Q0 v( Y1 W9 ZGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always7 [: S: y2 {& i, e' h3 N& o1 r
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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# v6 l \/ c* F7 Q3 TAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' M: R) L% ]2 Mdisgrasful and it should go away.7 e9 c) i/ ^, ]- A5 [% u
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By 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# M" \/ W. Y. Z% ?# _* b/ A: U# Y
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.0 K% M4 r# F3 \& v. I8 C
: {' I( Y1 Z6 l. s& D5 O1 ~9 A8 QZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
3 a& ^( K! o7 V5 {" aunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ i1 d( o" r" h
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze( @8 q. [8 f$ j) O0 a! m
forst plas.6 e* }4 G9 z9 G4 y! L. F
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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