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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
- Q' Z8 }6 A! E' b8 Xbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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4 f8 U: h7 T# FAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 t. Q' M. s% Espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ ^! V8 \2 j1 P* |* c
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
+ w6 ~! i9 e/ o' K* P v# c- {the sivil servants jump with joy.! M3 ?* {1 o5 k+ W7 n
" _! A; d; d6 P: q8 J* J8 \. hThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up6 I2 u$ k; d |2 E
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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" n7 r# x3 c8 k- E$ X& d; s7 H" O4 NThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the( Y/ |& ^+ ?/ k- ]( X% W; I6 T6 K+ v
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like% k+ q3 }& _. ^9 f! G/ [
fotograf 20% shorter.
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/ `" v D8 n; `% O% TIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) ?' Y H0 g+ i! v" j h
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: t9 ]$ G' Q1 Q& q$ C6 N- o
* o% l7 S6 e$ g5 E& l; \: C" CGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 m+ R3 m0 [; a& c0 c5 b, X; ?
ben a deterent to akurate speling.4 }% [# A6 K; P7 [
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is8 ^9 @) _# J1 h
disgrasful and it should go away.9 i0 E Q/ ]! v6 W* L0 l
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By 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, e* N' X" q5 }( I3 {8 M
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.7 u0 E r8 N5 a) L. B1 c/ b/ D
' ^- V. A3 ` X) eZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" j5 e5 c& A5 v/ l; Eunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
" ?# t v9 A8 m( q2 BUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze# }- g/ d+ R0 T
forst plas.
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$ n9 R8 ^' [ ~: s. mIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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