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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will9 s( L6 j+ d* e( K3 i% b& A
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
7 W- k/ z1 q; B, B! e W1 Pthe other possibility.0 x! r# ~3 s% [! w5 t7 s# s( |
. o9 N- }# N9 r/ j5 c& t# g* Y1 |As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English b$ t; b/ D5 d8 O
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in* \% p$ x9 B* A% k3 u
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." S, ]0 C* Z W
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make1 F' J: N0 S: f/ o* B9 B
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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! d" K. t) ^9 a \The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ S$ w5 L9 G* a! f$ ekonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.( A9 L6 J& N6 [6 q8 k
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8 e/ F r6 D* e0 k6 i0 vThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the5 L( C/ [4 z, t7 B% g' i
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like" t" e1 P- u( T* L, I1 u4 k
fotograf 20% shorter.4 s$ w* n$ @. G6 D( c$ {
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to2 X4 N4 f1 ~$ G( x6 l: V) v, F: _
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
4 s; ]( G; z0 n# yben a deterent to akurate speling.6 q d% _: Y0 O, X# D- J
3 r4 F3 ~) Q0 a7 R" zAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is: {% ~" q- z, U) A s
disgrasful and it should go away.
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0 z( x$ c7 D/ ]By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# j% V: d- t o; s
"z" and "w" with "v".$ x! h% z- z, w. u5 l$ G
O. F7 a/ o- x$ IDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ Z9 q# Q) r) H% uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.+ c9 L' @7 p' I4 \/ ?% f" r9 ^
7 k9 e3 a9 ^$ O1 C+ M7 DZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu' F/ [! f6 H/ K* K2 h" }
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru." Z6 x9 o* z0 `6 b. \1 z# b- B
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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$ s! k# K* G' q8 z9 z! PIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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