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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ O3 n, ^) t! z; F! d
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was2 w8 a6 W' m. ^5 }( @2 [% l6 C G
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
8 ]- W& A" e9 E2 m( o5 espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in6 o6 k& }5 M% ? e9 |1 E/ _
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( [& q" j% {2 }; A
the sivil servants jump with joy.) J! V. A; [ `6 n# D x& x
2 T: D7 p( B# n" pThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
: t% N0 `+ ~- A. ] I( E' r4 nkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.; a: S" x2 z( a$ M$ k; N" M W3 y# @! w) X
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
2 }! l" J$ f( @# o2 btroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
" U( [( V: u$ l" Cfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
& V* c. L7 r: d3 D! j e: jreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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. }) P6 l5 w0 yGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always' G8 h- \" W/ `) |
ben a deterent to akurate speling.4 j6 s* u! }" Z/ r# w% G
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
. u# a# Y5 I; M. P) @disgrasful and it should go away.. J4 J4 m7 k. O, O" _
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
8 R: Z* ?4 | M% f"z" and "w" with "v".# }" D* Z( N6 i p% T9 \, B) d
3 J/ C e: f; W6 J8 _During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and' b( L8 e4 Y6 M: e( p$ e
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 f; D6 V2 }. \1 J" p% L) g
5 B3 p8 J3 W0 }: }+ ^Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
4 z0 c6 U2 h2 bunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.. _- N7 G0 u. I. h, L# Y2 w) a+ g
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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/ B. O; Q) i$ A5 K3 S) pIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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