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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will; d( }4 N5 a7 c Z6 L
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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- K. d7 A {2 w3 V' }2 D# {As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English) O* `" Q8 P, i
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
' j+ S: ^3 h! \% W& Pplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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" ^0 K4 ?+ ~# m/ L* E0 A& yIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
& ?. Q! { o0 M* e3 E# w1 bthe sivil servants jump with joy.( `5 j4 |3 Z. I1 n& F1 q2 _
; ~. J- |% l7 l4 p' WThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up ]5 v; f3 j" k6 i& f
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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2 J$ m; ~, I1 ?1 zThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
% e$ K5 U! }$ ytroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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, w" {1 t4 A6 t& E. x/ nIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. @- x1 x* z1 Y* f* |; M1 J
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: S' Y0 y6 b8 Q2 s0 d( H3 z1 ?
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 W8 P+ L: S* [$ ]. ?
ben a deterent to akurate speling.9 e6 v) [" g% V5 E+ d! L6 E; V u' X
! T% \" _# ~8 _2 e8 _3 J. wAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is" E8 R+ U) m. T4 L; F: ~1 C9 {
disgrasful and it should go away.
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: o# ^8 K1 C! G" W1 w( bBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
- D0 a; m" a" hafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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! U7 F; k. \" E. J2 w/ O+ sZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& y# R; o+ \/ z7 f. M1 u+ Qunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.! c Q. |8 K, |/ {
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze# v+ w7 b4 B0 v% h3 X3 v7 |# d
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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