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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will; q: e" }4 t+ B- B
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was' ]$ ^& d+ T, I5 Q
the other possibility.
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1 w1 E+ l5 {9 i5 rAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
! ~6 I- f# i6 Mspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- ^3 M6 Y- m+ m' T; ~1 F
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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, ~' a$ a6 d* p9 k' ^In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
+ ~2 r+ u* |: L) {! ~3 Gthe sivil servants jump with joy.% G2 F2 y2 ^* T7 k* D) A
) S% U) [0 O6 t6 z' aThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
4 ]5 N3 y* |. s! a2 dkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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' {# A" E5 f/ L" xThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the) J) p# M2 f7 ^' X0 t7 ?* m
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
! X8 i2 d7 G4 z5 |fotograf 20% shorter.
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7 T3 \7 M" R3 {( w. |In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 O% G; p. u4 v( Lreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* X3 W6 K2 S1 [" l$ b7 E+ S* z
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- d' p4 V( K+ E5 A
ben a deterent to akurate speling.& {! Y! Z' U9 i
2 ?' a* I, I3 H4 {! rAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is! O* D1 q7 S& @6 c3 ?' x( l
disgrasful and it should go away.: J9 M( I4 i$ v5 P& g* O1 @+ S
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with; ^( O) L; r8 s2 k4 o; j. q; J+ A
"z" and "w" with "v". h% Q# j+ Q! {4 ^; p1 L7 \" |
f1 o4 {& P, j6 tDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and# s9 `- Q$ c6 S3 k9 t Q
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
# {1 y+ z! Q* p: T- k2 bunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru./ @7 o, k* b ^) f0 {% J
Und 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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