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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! g2 l1 k, A- S0 p0 A L6 U
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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+ Z/ m2 {( o' q E, P8 H. d1 E" gAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
* e9 C# a5 k: w R2 `spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in* X) _7 V# C# F5 m- ?+ Y
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".; i1 `! {& x) g9 R. h$ r
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
" O! t. F8 V" t; r; g/ Rthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up- s% |" r2 b1 L j) j7 }% @
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ X. S3 `8 E! G* H, P, atroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like3 c! Z3 s X2 h
fotograf 20% shorter.
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8 s/ Z! r9 X6 I+ P5 @$ J( }; ]4 ?, pIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# j1 R( k; Q, }% ~2 G
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: L# O! e4 ?! a$ h
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always6 K7 R* e$ n; q4 ]9 ]; _. V
ben a deterent to akurate speling.. n" n7 z |( }1 e0 g0 J% f; y
: B* V5 j5 j' n" tAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is0 V% h6 e+ K5 L" m7 C1 F/ R
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( }9 F. O8 \5 e3 `8 u9 s
"z" and "w" with "v".# @# g: R5 t0 m0 d) o" P
) `9 ]& F; |4 E7 q' x& Z& q- cDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
I6 g _5 R7 M4 mafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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f8 l6 E3 }9 b8 m) ~/ e5 TZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu- s) z- b3 L5 C% {8 u! Y
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.; R" O: x0 G8 ^) p, ~6 a7 N% v
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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' ~0 q* h1 z0 W' V' V- n" F6 cIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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