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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- B9 L9 m- m% f5 e V
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was2 ]- j. D$ m$ |4 y4 D
the other possibility.- I, [2 ]) d8 B' e
1 D5 [$ e) K y. C% f. BAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
5 P H, B# B6 _8 ^/ g7 lspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in0 x. h7 u' e! A! i5 I- G! I
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"., P1 d3 i4 J* g
1 y9 n2 h1 M" S; ~/ w" A, IIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make& ?6 Q D6 b ?) m/ f O
the sivil servants jump with joy.! R3 |( K' h+ W" b/ A5 N% F, p
~* R6 F# t( m0 O! bThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ {+ B) D o$ F; w5 c2 H
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.; L F$ a% h/ r+ y9 @$ D" i9 b1 q x; X
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ L. u" ]0 b" p( Itroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to3 ? \' \ `% @' k) s
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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: \5 T) h5 L4 w5 A( M' TGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
+ h2 Y# ~/ o6 H0 }, D6 jben a deterent to akurate speling.& {8 _- c+ y& ~0 y. M9 g$ W
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
$ K" d% \/ |1 N9 h& j( Fdisgrasful and it should go away.1 t/ i. S0 h3 [3 c& D% @7 \
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) u/ x4 t# T: H( |( Y2 n! Yafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) N3 W6 H/ ? P5 d
! h# V! w3 [; H' ]9 }Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu' K8 g" C% w( w5 k9 \
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.) Y" N: ~! |8 Y, r
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze" y; ^7 W' s% H6 D; y' @% O
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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