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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will( {1 h1 `3 l1 b9 K9 ]
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& z. K" W! Y) m$ p2 K7 N
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in# S3 m# k+ A/ l' g2 K/ z% @
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make% Y0 ] r0 F9 V" y7 P/ }
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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* Y2 D2 V4 W2 J& KThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up4 F( [: p$ f9 s3 s: }
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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3 F2 y5 ^3 u. i) x. {There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the5 s/ m' l6 x! H
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! R6 r ]9 v! T9 o
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to5 K0 z" c+ y* [) ^3 K
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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+ n' _7 R$ I) l8 ~. a7 gGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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$ M& w a' r; ]1 p& ^+ n( YBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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8 C' N2 S; c6 c3 m$ d/ BDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
5 ?8 n# S- P: C _after 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
$ k9 s5 s( W, k* k& Junderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.) [' z) \6 x5 q
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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1 p j6 Q0 D; V; L' e( YIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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