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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will. M# j8 H8 ^+ R+ k
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
$ G7 s' ?( |5 v# `8 vthe other possibility.
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; E4 L; A- r5 `As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English7 H3 \3 e% Z; N) \6 I/ T
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in5 a7 s( T0 a% R1 V& D, |( q; N% `
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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& f/ [8 G7 [) q- Q' W+ B$ xIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
2 J5 r+ C( @3 y0 s- C) j! A+ q; x/ A: Qthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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. B6 U4 W6 e* l; Q. r& j! S, MThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ i- o1 k. m% J2 H8 b: C
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.. T( D* b* s1 C2 `
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5 x" c z9 |7 M( k6 z4 u( }There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
( ?) `( L t9 T1 w$ i N2 ytroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 C( M5 s" H/ x; H- o M; ~fotograf 20% shorter.. |1 ^- S5 _, u. ^0 B% ~+ I4 X
; D" q* `/ _# rIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to* V, _% V9 F( x: Z9 E5 ^) O Q
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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- b! b# V6 b6 r) h/ eGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
* h: w0 m" R8 u3 Iben a deterent to akurate speling.1 t/ ^1 [' e# q3 }, R
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is! B2 l# I$ Q- U2 C
disgrasful and it should go away.8 X- ]. u/ W% j& i T5 O
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
2 R( R; Q* `( {) b"z" and "w" with "v".
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5 b$ [6 v$ x# ~# vDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) H" k8 S* W1 H2 ~. bafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.9 ?9 N1 q1 W' I3 s1 \* h( I$ F$ |1 ^! G
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
+ d2 Z0 D0 a( Z8 t" y! B: P2 S) Punderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
5 S1 Y: z# t* _: n6 f* d4 \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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