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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will. J. a G1 ]6 H$ `* V+ H: H! V p+ f
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
" V- K/ d- E0 o, M0 L0 M- Q1 V vspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
7 x( d; e% e# ]; Y2 k8 ~( Jplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
& z; Y( a L# q) E+ P" lthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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2 Z6 V2 D5 u- L, e- bThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up7 g; p z# ]) \& b$ v( k& k
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.4 G7 z+ V z& N) I% A* E' H( Y
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- K4 I% v4 e1 j9 f5 F3 w1 oThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 P* g# I7 m' ]3 T$ X" R4 K8 T
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like F' q& Y0 D9 o- Q9 U4 P5 q& S
fotograf 20% shorter.
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; @$ m9 F2 m) D/ _3 a) O& sIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to7 X i, a, ~. e N! t
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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% ~, w" {) p8 n$ Z" gGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
, p: o' U2 ~1 {5 [ben a deterent to akurate speling.# a5 M; z1 k6 S3 E- h
5 B' N! M* ?6 n9 ^1 L3 OAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is6 J0 Y. `0 \9 W/ F2 g- [# ]6 _
disgrasful and it should go away.4 H, C6 a5 f8 N+ h
0 `5 Z2 J9 `! |$ V3 U$ E5 hBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 A. M8 f7 Q7 Z
"z" and "w" with "v".8 I7 X q( U6 t; p! r
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
& C$ i( I3 N; S Dafter 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
; f6 T/ ]9 r; q$ \2 E$ \) `understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
b+ p7 Z& o! t/ JUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze1 f! L+ e B8 n# c/ m9 @/ _+ E. O) v
forst plas.
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% g1 w: e& O. o: i8 kIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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