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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will, h5 q9 G/ l+ s I2 r' E+ C* j
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was9 T' ?+ ^$ Z. q+ F- l
the other possibility. W: K0 @0 l8 j
4 E( |* z( K( v) _% Y4 d$ p6 I0 X8 eAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English8 } ?- S7 D! w! W: t% y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
' w/ l( ~( O3 U; o Y- dplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." E% O' p$ X$ Z' I
. d* M* H; V2 D" n/ aIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
. D4 e9 p) g1 v% B* {6 y5 fthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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% W+ W1 h9 I N' ]* j+ LThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
2 W( c% e6 K8 T6 h1 i8 E# Okonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the6 G1 i% {# i' H. i1 a
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; N% g4 L/ ? j" {9 s) g, c0 S; Y
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to e8 Y! j5 D" b9 D
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always4 m% W5 A6 c) ~0 j& O8 w
ben a deterent to akurate speling.5 V$ f2 A3 H+ I; F
) o; k- {) ~/ Z8 yAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 \8 h# h4 t* J( h
disgrasful and it should go away.
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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
& f5 F4 h5 {/ n% N9 N& q$ yafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) }. t" D( N* d& K3 O+ w( E( i
6 l. _0 v0 P3 m3 |" HZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu. b: v. D8 R! _9 @" P
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.0 ]% l" F: J$ p& l* ~) D. ~5 w
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze9 e: T9 g* ~. b
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, v9 P4 C" M/ b( sIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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