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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will1 ?4 E; D0 X" J) z3 P( ]
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
2 r4 ^5 R0 t1 c6 gthe other possibility.
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3 n+ ^) V' h9 m( F9 CAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
* M6 H! F) F) u" h0 Y" I# ]spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" F/ t# s# l- }+ f4 |8 g5 G
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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; i) A j! X7 |In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make) C4 {0 w8 _2 D0 u2 {5 T; b1 G
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
8 X3 c; }& @5 K. R7 ^" n+ Okonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
0 \' a o4 f/ M9 @1 a8 L) Ztroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like% T: X+ A. T: X7 f
fotograf 20% shorter.. R' b! n- _& j+ b3 ^1 K0 b
& A6 M1 m3 s5 kIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 O$ C# a: A& I$ J# _# t7 ^6 Zreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.. _( a s0 F1 v6 N8 {7 d; q" ~2 H
" P/ E' o' N! rGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always6 r7 P: p! S0 c9 I: f( M' [
ben a deterent to akurate speling.$ G5 L( T" [5 U, N
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
7 H/ z$ s6 Z# K- f {disgrasful and it should go away., m; c G. `- B1 z& c- d
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with6 g/ q# w \ a1 Y' A. ~ D
"z" and "w" with "v".1 Y _- Y$ y0 |5 ` D2 w
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* X% Y8 n8 N f% Cafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.# }0 v( t0 ?; m" W2 S
6 P1 ^6 y8 E4 F3 U5 T' o% C6 J/ N# lZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
* H4 |, Q9 Z# `3 ^understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ _2 _* e5 o2 T$ U A5 Y7 GUnd 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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