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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
8 W; v$ R) w4 ~* x8 Q3 |- Bbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# ?1 M& O% f! o
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' v- S* H" ^+ D2 X( _As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. s, `( ~) f ]; l% ^. J
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
4 L3 H, U) R1 f, b: T. q2 Kplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".# k" R0 F: y0 X- i
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
* o2 b' q0 ]2 zkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 x% }9 K+ R1 w' P
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
: f: E/ [" v: afotograf 20% shorter.
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4 x: P) D4 p+ N+ F# e8 x9 Q. a& J( nIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
^' Q/ z4 _. g/ f1 }reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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; S$ Z5 t6 @2 ?$ L5 ~Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; Q) ~/ N9 Z2 f% bben a deterent to akurate speling.% W7 R9 f: K' `: \. l
7 y6 x; j3 z: {9 Y2 j' n3 dAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is: k; S/ L8 { _( V. ~' t
disgrasful and it should go away. G; Q! g6 o l: X4 K$ l
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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, u [# K3 R8 BDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
( U" P' ], b6 Z; m$ Y% s5 Tafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 ] e2 x; i* M& s7 T0 G. h
$ n3 B; @, z. a3 ?0 z9 i6 YZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* {6 F* r& @" X: n& u: Z: X
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
! k2 v' t% M, ?) r2 F6 @3 R3 LUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze* m* e7 N: S% f! u( K
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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