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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ w& M+ g, Y* j B1 m! v
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was `. V' Z# F; [& j
the other possibility.
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5 R4 x0 B V2 ?8 IAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English* ?# A- p8 U! z( F/ L
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
" N3 N* }4 V! Y4 X( D$ Bplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." `8 O% L" J" m x
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
7 T- H7 S0 F3 I9 M& a6 Wthe sivil servants jump with joy. l, \( y5 G3 D9 |. o7 e
1 t" @" T" ?9 Q; d/ Q! AThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
7 a9 N& W/ F5 U5 Ekonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. a6 k2 m: s" J2 `! V2 e4 W; b
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the$ [/ |8 m/ C/ W5 z/ _4 a
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
! g/ a; ?5 f" G; oreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible." l% c5 n3 ?' W+ ]2 n
7 i9 }" i9 `# M: Q6 V# c2 nGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always' i; Q% F2 i0 F' w9 R# ~
ben a deterent to akurate speling.2 ^( g7 t5 H+ K- b4 \
9 N4 H2 n7 x1 |8 @2 H8 WAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
9 ^! b3 N& {! ~/ T, s, v9 f' Cdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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X! P9 J- C1 m; RDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
/ }9 u8 f$ v8 Q: x+ Q+ yafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.5 m; s7 r3 {7 z7 F9 p5 u" K) g w
. w) W" C* W. C: K. CZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu% r3 L% g4 l, W; p
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
2 h! q5 F! ^! C( N7 tUnd 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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