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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
& c; G, U) w: `* c% i; wbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was3 R" _1 @$ l3 w8 F6 i/ q# ^4 s
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: U u" p) m: oAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English1 r) G# y% I% |
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
$ z) ]% g3 U, `0 b$ Q# a( [& nplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".6 i4 M, G; e# r1 {$ j
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make" H3 y+ Y; _; b: U- B: r( l! l
the sivil servants jump with joy.6 ^# ^! ^( p2 y) K5 e8 @
1 i6 i" Z/ _# ?% v5 }# ~The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
. b/ v6 L5 A: l% _konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, y! L; B0 L" @ T) W
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like- Q( ^# u" y" k4 u v! `
fotograf 20% shorter.. v+ N- \! t5 R
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
7 g6 I/ _2 F! H9 ]1 Yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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7 z+ j; i, C/ ] X \ OGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
+ X, @# i5 r/ T. Bben a deterent to akurate speling.% p# |( A& Y! Q% P. y6 {1 K
0 q# x( m, f6 fAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is( ~) `9 F! y1 M+ a$ f, `% c
disgrasful and it should go away.
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$ ?1 O$ J5 L+ O! `By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( a. f/ f+ C5 f# ]2 }
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
2 k1 M# b p6 e x- }8 Jafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 b; q% o) D# _" c, m- t% m
p2 U- P7 t' ]6 |3 zZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
; T; R. P& ^7 Punderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
+ d3 H2 W+ N' ~* N- @2 m) s* A% lUnd 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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