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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will# k( I' f$ ]" m
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was g* a) p W1 d- n, v
the other possibility.
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$ r: f( a$ Q0 u7 PAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English/ o( X7 A0 W+ @( @
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in5 H4 F9 H* l$ N* ^" `1 N' I
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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/ C: i/ t/ H! G6 ^) t# yIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make7 q, d5 r/ [, N4 K2 C. m
the sivil servants jump with joy./ r6 g9 D4 Z' h$ L0 j+ U8 k! ]/ V- c
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up2 l. F9 B1 t0 i
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the _$ P; H. j. w! y
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like( B8 C2 `; ?. d
fotograf 20% shorter.
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! T7 v7 v1 B! O. ]In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
0 c+ v K1 o2 U7 I# |3 Z, treach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always( [8 L1 o2 p$ Y2 }1 w( u
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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$ o, h0 W4 l; n @; QAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is9 D; [2 ~; h9 {# P7 b8 d
disgrasful and it should go away./ w! F* M% B- H1 O o6 k0 R
& l+ P/ x$ m1 u/ u# S+ tBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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5 |' [8 j1 ?7 jDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
: O, b' }' X3 V9 h$ {! ?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# d4 [9 F7 _, A6 J# m
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 K3 M7 K$ m- h5 ^7 F& g
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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. w R$ C8 j) K6 wIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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