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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will5 Q5 }7 j- S4 C1 h5 U+ e- D- B+ k
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
' _# ~! ]6 @( j9 qthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English3 D+ h% J. _8 c# r% b
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
+ Q2 v2 ~( R3 R- I- ?- ^plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".) a* T+ |# R. t
' |2 `2 ]/ I, g/ P3 B' y0 jIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
' `9 y! R2 L% athe sivil servants jump with joy.4 @# ^! \/ {' h) `& @5 i6 x5 [
$ L& S7 x! F' c- p A% b3 p9 @The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
- V' ^+ [ C- G# W: `% ?! zkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., ~, j' z- B. A6 @: m- c
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8 w8 m m S% P( Z, b! e, XThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
$ a1 Y; E1 O! e* stroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like8 q0 W' g3 f' _( r* N: ^
fotograf 20% shorter.) v( k; c+ }1 t/ R" s
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) O' M; i5 x8 x0 h
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.7 N1 I4 u( \/ ~& V: A* i* k
7 N8 @* G L2 ?# @9 [1 d: ]Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; T! o4 ~3 T/ `7 V; n8 I& }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 is7 n( r( g7 f- y2 X [5 i/ i
disgrasful and it should go away.
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: s4 ]* S1 I2 D% D& HBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with' ?, q0 u* W" G$ B: E. B
"z" and "w" with "v".
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- d5 f$ J# L; }During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 I7 \, ~; w( r5 q/ \' ]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
5 Y0 @3 m/ d4 Q0 c1 Dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.) w, A8 h8 @" H6 z b; N
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze' d! X: R6 ]4 O* l* S6 Y
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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