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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will* x' v6 T3 r W, W; ^6 p
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
0 \7 K' I |+ Q8 Wthe other possibility.
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0 M9 a3 i1 D0 t; nAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
9 H8 P$ |+ |, n$ z' I5 ]/ X1 yspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ x* V# E, N6 e; |; h, r
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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9 `1 o8 t( a, ]0 RIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make: q9 v+ S5 q& L3 g- n
the sivil servants jump with joy." |5 P- t" z! R
: E1 R5 P5 B! C% EThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: a8 r! ^; x! g" f) b. b$ N, d
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the% j# C$ ^3 B& F1 B
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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8 x0 g9 Z0 B( y" i) X+ ZIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
% c' o& E9 h! k0 ?. s, ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.7 X) G3 @+ U! v! V. \2 \
1 b2 s7 b. r& ~* E# e- q- m SGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always) R9 I8 ~* n$ [5 d. |
ben a deterent to akurate speling.* i0 P3 V3 F' M( @0 V4 J6 v
, Q" R( l- f9 X' A) e8 z: CAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is: L% S X7 X4 Q7 C @: F5 `
disgrasful and it should go away.
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4 v1 u \, F# h( w1 \/ UBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 r. Y; p! C8 V
"z" and "w" with "v".6 T* c9 m2 o H y& U
1 ~3 F; `* W7 [% E* L7 \& FDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and4 @9 J* `- N. q( Y
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.( B5 u5 ^" _6 y& Y e# V/ D
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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Und 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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