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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will" R" ~1 Y# M- O! |9 J% [
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was3 _! i( a$ E0 \/ q0 i) u9 F
the other possibility., e/ R+ Z0 c# R0 ?5 x& v- U3 t
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English! W* ]; x# y3 S4 M
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
+ ^% B. U( i0 F. p4 Y. _9 ]" Nplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 q8 m c7 ^" R6 M
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
/ `7 u* C* v$ s. P% Lkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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7 E9 Z8 j& `3 B- D9 ZThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
3 E1 Z; \7 q5 atroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like5 Q" G3 V9 O- b) b
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
2 |* `) ~7 g1 X3 X) {reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: X* e) m5 W! p- t6 ]# E @0 @" r5 U
1 X( P$ Q3 q$ ^; b/ T" {Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
+ m( H" a/ ^5 l0 y" g& Iben 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& q4 N/ y+ E3 }1 H G
disgrasful and it should go away." }: J3 z' [' {! G/ {: x* L/ m( |
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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1 c7 A R8 T; m6 ^1 ]During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
; ^0 C& I1 }5 D s$ N" Jafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.9 ?! g: X1 s$ E! r2 u0 L. m: s; ~. _+ ]
+ _" R: D0 e! z M" O/ lZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu$ i- v( @- h. n
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru./ L* w$ X' p3 ?3 I9 Q
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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$ F+ E1 X* I/ d1 F8 NIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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