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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will, @+ g' c7 n, d0 C/ A9 {0 a
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. t# P1 \3 U9 x. S# m' \
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
8 y+ ? r4 G( o9 fplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".5 @" E: s. U" y$ B8 y7 }& ~
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make9 R# e+ o5 x2 s- C" g9 `, ]* n6 V4 ~2 c
the sivil servants jump with joy.) E/ E: Z$ K2 ^7 z
4 W- U; ` `8 Y! b0 b. W- DThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
5 v; x* a" `4 M- i! N1 Hkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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( _8 |) p/ i# S1 `) b! ~8 |7 sThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
( p/ L; z! |+ e5 L1 Vtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
+ j* p2 {6 @8 Q+ Mfotograf 20% shorter.
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6 t$ } y' b' c* k5 I5 _; XIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
* _( P6 s, w) M$ a+ Z( rreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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P& f. b3 U5 ? y+ D, U) \7 bGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
: \/ |/ i0 s7 A' H: f9 I: \ben a deterent to akurate speling.4 o& U2 G$ _$ Q9 a; M7 m) e& x
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is+ O" k$ k' G" K: `* G
disgrasful and it should go away.
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6 \; n4 S/ {; x$ j7 DBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with. U3 f2 B- v0 M6 G
"z" and "w" with "v".' Z) i7 v3 K' q& C
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and$ o6 g% K6 f/ V0 _, }. C R% _
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.5 Z3 C7 C# q3 W4 c) w: e
& G, F$ s4 s" M) p7 @8 {% L; _Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
/ }3 y6 W$ u$ s8 }, Junderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; t/ q! J: a1 V( Q+ U5 _# PUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 v& {# _/ H" d0 [6 J
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+ I5 a# Y7 l; ?. G( e, SIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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