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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will0 s6 ^2 w. _+ D/ Y$ _+ Q
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
) r7 r, z9 i1 H" A/ Q0 L) M# athe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
: j. ?" P1 y, q0 fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
/ w- C. K# ~1 iplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".3 }$ v9 S% A! ]. v. O& c) P
* Z) v* v% E+ jIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
# d9 j% p" ^# l2 c' d$ Pthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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. U6 A- W" A0 zThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ _7 U' h! z: ~: Q) M& _
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: H: ^; c0 U- w1 M: W
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
& z% f% E6 v4 E0 v3 Rtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 T2 V0 A6 a8 M v$ ?! Vfotograf 20% shorter.
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( k, `5 ?' I) \: h6 A/ A+ ?: t; `In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 A/ r* L, O+ h( i- breach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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+ r. ~+ d* v, F/ g- t& X! Q; d7 L# V4 {Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
2 v* s) X, ?+ r+ W' V0 H6 Mben a deterent to akurate speling.0 r) B) ^, h6 ^& i
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
+ ]9 S3 V( _* {% {& i% C; P- K' V+ sdisgrasful and it should go away., K/ K S* j2 }: P" }6 M/ X
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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4 O2 `# `# |' T2 h, ^1 b* j. L' aDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 P2 ^% y1 i8 A8 S3 a; i$ _after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. P9 ~8 h% n& o' C- e0 e
% b) o- c9 M7 }& g0 y7 kZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu. {7 i3 V2 R; I& S' j: X0 J+ {2 j6 b
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ z# P% n( Z7 ]2 h! K# L) \7 X- HUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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