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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will+ |$ B9 O0 D; }- |
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was7 S2 k0 I1 n7 a e/ l, ^$ e
the other possibility.: T2 c# ?) r" M" [, r$ F3 h# O
: f F0 D% S0 |1 b) z* PAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English; A: M7 _8 m& X* G: h! Z, a
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
' A" E& b6 G: z8 j" F1 \* V' Xplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".9 Y+ q' t8 a1 t8 {6 u+ a' J/ f
: E" G r) r, B1 U' t3 B7 v5 aIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 n4 L- b. X9 @
the sivil servants jump with joy./ O" k0 T: K! Z" @9 b) ?) L8 H+ Q5 X
2 n+ U; E' w) Z! ^6 r: xThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up# a1 J* w% R$ ]7 O- ~7 O% o& Y' V
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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& l2 S* e2 P, O( yThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the T1 g" u0 _+ [
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like% V; D2 k5 ~0 q& O A) g: p
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to; E$ g z u0 X$ { t
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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" w- Y* w1 g( r7 eGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always5 b3 V9 W2 O8 [6 Q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' V* {! o! W; W; x% a; d) Sdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with' n+ S8 i, n+ |. m& I
"z" and "w" with "v"., D# f7 l6 o8 z% z+ u
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, R# e; u8 Z: G$ w4 @! Zafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.$ h9 t' k; f' J
% Q' l K' O7 @" b6 y) gZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu ^/ v' h" D1 `- `. q; u9 t
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
" s0 C1 u: X1 b' GUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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0 `$ P5 v3 C" J- ~If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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