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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' _7 k5 y9 S3 t& Z
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was4 Q5 ]) G! R% l" x9 F$ l( q- o8 g
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
' r5 d# {- E7 _, [2 E Hspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in7 z/ U* q1 ~ d6 g9 L
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".4 L" m7 q3 `0 C6 ]6 ]
3 u$ E; ~, H7 ~: rIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
5 C4 o$ t7 u w" k# ethe sivil servants jump with joy. H+ R# E5 {. H6 B; ~
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ m' A/ e' |# P9 s6 E( F
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.& K! g, s3 v, F7 Q9 e
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+ B% E: K* K' L# ]: t9 NThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
. x/ F& Z3 V7 f. K/ W8 Z1 j. l; vtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, r( Y/ ]8 H! v- C3 |) Ifotograf 20% shorter.
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* [- U8 w/ z: @. ^+ H. L, O1 xIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
$ m1 ]. u2 g7 r' X9 [1 K- Areach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.. a" v5 w' O3 ^& l4 P }# K
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always/ n9 }1 ^6 J% k F& K0 J
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 is
v6 s4 m8 R5 h, K* t, fdisgrasful and it should go away.9 S4 L7 z) k0 i8 V
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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$ X$ y. Z" p' J) S5 C) @2 z8 oDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and4 O2 R. ?" `5 E
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., A+ W" i1 L& I- p
6 g0 E/ G c" T, S( H- N1 LZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. j6 I* i; [8 munderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 ?5 e" b; C+ S' D5 jUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze: `4 @9 }' E- I9 g
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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