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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will, W5 A9 j. Y, M8 s. a3 }
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was% L7 T2 o: O9 g+ ]8 k3 K' I2 {' i
the other possibility.
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: z. Y# B q; L3 J; x1 N# nAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 e3 W4 j- G5 ?% Nspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& r) p# W' h. b7 ]- |+ m( V; pplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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: I( s- a2 h$ k) i* R' Z7 @' oIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
7 v& r7 T9 `" D" g! `! q# _the sivil servants jump with joy.
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7 I% z4 E/ d5 WThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ O. k! k, e6 ?$ s$ ]& W4 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
, i7 i. d# N" H% M8 ^9 ^/ R8 otroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, G+ A2 u0 p; _% Z3 Hfotograf 20% shorter.
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P" V$ R6 B: V) l* EIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to- ~$ r2 B# P/ t
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.+ y' E. E- _$ m/ J6 u
6 s. i6 V5 M+ ]. j! ?7 PGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
/ y1 a7 ^7 x( Q5 ^& ]5 M/ p! I2 Jben a deterent to akurate speling." D9 A# ?2 u7 w; e/ a
: n0 X1 {( G) N* s! e9 mAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
& V9 O) _7 W E, Q3 E0 L( c$ L4 edisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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4 n1 F( Y8 R" Q8 Z" Q gDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
s4 N% D& d7 l0 N6 \! bafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.& ]0 w/ N) _& X3 z7 e/ f' d' T
+ |+ S- o. I# `' V) DZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
; N$ I/ m7 D2 e- s9 o7 B5 _+ ^understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru./ b( W% D3 `7 G, _
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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. N1 P0 F/ o) U1 F# I6 }If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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