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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will+ x; d2 x# X7 _$ r
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was9 p7 O# ?' W( |' ]% S* V% k
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
' i7 j# T% Z7 I A+ s+ e1 Fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
1 P2 {1 y% [# R# R; Rplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make" c& ?7 I% G! S$ B
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% v; n( c( }, ~3 E' N4 @
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.# h" N+ \8 m) C) E+ Q: d0 S i
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
$ d3 A4 l: B; G/ w8 u8 D+ @3 Itroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like3 M* F' ^- K* j: T4 y
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to: y Q: Y- Y$ E0 [& ~
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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- F- {* A/ b, W, O5 x6 JGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 z7 G# O" q& ~: _/ a4 M# W
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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^( {0 f4 F; e1 @% c8 R( M0 }/ ZAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
, ^! f9 E2 N) {0 p' [" u# Jdisgrasful 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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a U2 B. b' {5 L* `3 A. KDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
( B; F, w- L8 Q& q) _after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.. r, M+ L; ^# G: v2 n/ Z! T6 g
6 X* [6 A! J6 |+ CZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: N0 z8 z8 I+ }2 a
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.* g% u1 J4 b# }& Q6 l- P
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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& ?& @* G' R5 a: J0 eIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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