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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will2 E, l) g# ]. p5 A9 K. t2 ~' N
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was4 y, s6 p( q- f0 X3 p/ C; o/ @3 {
the other possibility.! B" V" C7 H) U& y$ c5 C( w
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
- T! R, ?* F- t0 F& J2 Dspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
; j, J. t' b2 T# xplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 U& f0 q$ A; g7 J+ e! O
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up7 ?# p4 e" t9 d+ y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.1 J7 E% e$ A L
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: t: x6 C9 q+ Q# BThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
$ K/ J: M5 L$ y+ _7 j, ^) n4 Vtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
6 S3 p% R0 F& O, T, ^fotograf 20% shorter.6 p% y( J9 `/ G+ J
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
) F0 T1 y$ G8 J9 v# R/ p! U( `reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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% H! g0 a# D) q( J" b% [7 uGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 ^5 q9 g' l5 o) {ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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7 p* c- L4 D3 d/ b7 IAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is. @$ [! C/ p2 x: t( m* ^
disgrasful and it should go away.. K' W; k- c: j. p5 ~8 K
) R/ ^- ~, c" K. W# pBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with1 H1 c- |) P) i: j* W
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" U, g* p2 l$ t4 S/ B2 u! V
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.8 v( F" G( x: I6 Y
! ?, N6 J& J- u8 s: g2 HZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu5 X3 Q4 R' @- y0 w8 b
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru., L, S4 M3 v8 Y/ n4 e
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze$ F4 ?0 j. w! b+ P5 L$ O8 i. d
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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