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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will7 v5 h' H' m# x$ x
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was, e( v- {. B) v$ ]0 G
the other possibility.5 j2 ?! U7 V; o; |! |: v7 V9 M
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English1 F" c# v# X T2 ~6 ^
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in! n$ C! _+ k. f8 Q
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- l$ w4 Y6 Y* c+ v9 t0 B' p0 i I2 `+ l
the sivil servants jump with joy.4 Y7 G" s" U) m) ?+ ~( `
% {/ {$ m* R" L( HThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up' R K/ @. U5 U- f8 V4 G
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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% M" h$ ]' f3 R- nThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
9 @1 J+ L2 V+ n2 \! Z/ ]* |4 ctroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! u+ c7 r# u/ }' Z2 s4 T! y
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to! e. M# J. }9 g/ u
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible./ z' s/ P: y* d7 l* Q; N8 F) O
" A' {9 K7 A' W }! n; W) I: GGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
$ Y% I1 U' s* p( A2 Rben a deterent to akurate speling.
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) `; [" d0 `, T$ D+ Z W; Y% OAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is( F, V- r# o. g
disgrasful and it should go away.3 D) h/ i, y. J4 t3 V8 b5 B, v5 J! X
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with) u4 ? P/ g1 u6 q" k) S
"z" and "w" with "v".$ Z: O1 d, |2 [" V* ]
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
; H- A9 N2 f7 cafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; b7 U2 N$ d1 {3 r, F
# C' f2 n3 p- }/ }5 M. f& FZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu& o8 l) A! q* I5 |" B
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
# S+ `% F, ~' a8 }; SUnd 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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