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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will; p4 u+ R5 o+ f1 L: O
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was. t S- k6 k# @7 o
the other possibility.
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4 w6 G6 t i0 F/ L1 M0 J5 O; YAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
. ?; v0 M( n' v: ?) Vspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
0 p/ n- s6 s n: j9 E' e7 Xplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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- Z' b" B$ Z: kIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
2 l' H c; r) n1 l4 T/ w6 Rthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up* |. ~# s6 D7 ^4 w6 O
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
) Y# J9 o( m4 ?# rtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
. o* n) H8 N* g6 wfotograf 20% shorter.$ @' p" ]5 f5 v! Q5 ^" P9 B" L' {/ r
1 \# s9 A; _# Q6 P# ?1 HIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to4 g' l+ s$ R5 q0 C2 d r
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 M \# B0 ?' `8 R' Y1 _
7 S+ L5 q8 U) PGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
P6 e6 l h k& v5 k0 ydisgrasful and it should go away.( x ]4 w/ t& O1 U( q
2 z) \# H r7 b& @* [" |) I! O5 {& b1 PBy 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"and9 |4 l+ ]7 P" H, G' Y
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
7 A5 _6 u! u+ O; ?understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
5 m; g- y# M. f" N7 q3 L8 u+ c" [- JUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze0 |2 L; n7 `( w6 ~4 a4 B
forst plas.
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* s" s# X2 R9 a3 P0 {* GIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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