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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will2 d2 r) Y5 S5 F, G
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
5 i" L( ]. s" @( d h& s. dthe other possibility.
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& H1 \" q) o: y& z! Y: m" YAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
. S4 z' P! C1 v- m6 z' p9 pspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- |2 K5 @) ?2 }6 @2 S' P( Q- P
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 v5 z; L3 g3 N( N" E' ]
0 }/ ], G: d# CIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
" V7 @8 S' {' B" V# B% Fthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
/ j1 p" c5 |; |konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.8 r4 i; ]4 F& k
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( X+ d/ S2 c$ @) p! PThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the q1 g) f5 \& Z8 j& {3 w& J5 m
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
% D* A, F) ]! d8 R' } F! l$ Q( n" jfotograf 20% shorter.9 h. `/ \) H( w! B8 P7 ?
6 ~* i0 X s; ^1 L9 C% f* HIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
0 s- X# Y4 _6 }. u/ F d* Areach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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$ h) d5 ^1 i& ~/ L/ S$ T( X, eGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
a" G. U2 g; y9 M! l6 \ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is7 {( b9 y" f9 v: ?
disgrasful and it should go away.) D( Q3 L1 w4 j7 _. v2 B
: j- O2 |3 _. K; c, u- t/ m# D" X, JBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with2 T% y! ^6 q9 L9 a& m% H
"z" and "w" with "v".
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: c l# K; s5 x/ V' W- tDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. G, Q& Q/ g w+ h2 F/ W5 wafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 W6 k3 w( I1 u
: ~- O; g5 X+ r/ O2 N- m x, G# wZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu! e& D- q C& {" n
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.# N* H b# Z3 w0 E9 V
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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