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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will6 L3 n! X7 O; h2 N
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was! [9 m9 |. n5 E; P2 h$ _2 }* R
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
. W$ ^# p6 H# T- L' O" z' A4 t) E! Cspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in' [) `7 D+ c$ `, n/ a1 _/ W
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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: W6 p B" K8 I* QIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
$ Q2 Z7 W, [3 \/ k7 e$ |the sivil servants jump with joy.
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% y# w' F0 }1 i2 Z; VThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up0 R5 R; Y0 i7 ?2 x. v, B! Y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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$ v! b# V! r. q! rThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
2 b0 r: r+ `6 f# ]troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like6 f8 o' b, R0 k1 c1 C9 y" [' `7 {
fotograf 20% shorter.
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' K' l. K! V8 _3 o1 Q. V$ C1 MIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
6 H4 X( S' m/ v8 s3 nreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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" A! s4 t) y3 j$ @Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always' `8 R3 W& D% A3 J8 C
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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$ h# Z( }6 Y- Q1 eAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
$ s# A8 c# l: ~9 ?8 S; ?# ~disgrasful and it should go away./ O1 |% z! ~" v* Q ~
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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3 `% W4 v& \2 Z$ |' mDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" [& p1 W3 t$ T
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu' B0 a" V" u5 M
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% z3 I) j" |1 ?$ A v3 }/ _
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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4 m; i$ H5 R+ l$ i H4 OIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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