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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
* C/ B% ^4 R# N3 ~# D3 R- P- m) ]be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was9 Y2 [# V& l2 k, d. I( `) o7 B
the other possibility.
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& _* T, Y0 O+ a U' D' f8 G4 @As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English- }5 W- a0 w8 O! {, i
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ l% l: f( I- S; |4 K
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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* p! W6 |+ g3 n; }. p4 c& s1 Q5 kIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
$ N" s& t3 A* i- q' D3 Q: bthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ [4 u( U+ C* A' E6 P) j
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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, j9 K* u3 A n) d; v+ }There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the u8 z! n1 M ^! M( B+ N
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
2 `% y y: u/ G' s# y. w [# D: Bfotograf 20% shorter.) r/ L# @* C8 F/ o1 |
4 t: P8 k) c9 z( |) ? |: p r) HIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to6 o" u8 o7 b# |, Z
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" o# u, ^5 f( ~3 ]% v/ W/ `
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
2 t, T( O+ y3 |" G7 `9 g: w) i+ Z& Ndisgrasful and it should go away.
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, d4 Y' {2 u1 i& CBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with, ^. W# A) a: X: K7 b7 F
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and M% j1 m. [. z* {/ ~% f
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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0 z% M/ |9 g& U1 y4 L7 K& \ i3 HZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
Z |% E3 }8 ]* @understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. {+ z: h( v; D6 |0 `+ Z; H! a1 s
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze( G% p& K- s0 U; U
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- c, L J+ i' q7 T" [7 E8 YIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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