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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will, L8 W4 P4 D( i% {; n
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
; x+ s) U. U0 a" i) p$ Y* g$ o0 Vthe other possibility.% @+ L# E& W7 e" t8 p( T g! e1 Q# l0 I E
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
/ I6 G9 J1 S5 Q' D4 Z+ u) O$ Lspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 J9 z! f r# U) v' D
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
1 F$ d2 l# V3 [, W1 Mthe sivil servants jump with joy.3 F1 V4 h) `+ D! r! H) `! ^: p
7 H6 G% E* l7 F( e" _+ I3 jThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up7 O" N$ U5 E( b" `* O' y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.' @) k' x# O; ?0 W( w+ ?' @9 S. k$ o
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l7 ^4 n. B3 zThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the8 r D3 k, V0 ]
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like4 M/ C5 o8 i9 \
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to$ `1 i( m! i. E% u1 W5 q" x; I
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
: _* n4 s& }. Y5 N) M6 ]) ^. bben a deterent to akurate speling.
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( y- I1 i/ m# y& U; K2 aAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is5 @1 V, k$ V! H- V5 F% n* e+ o
disgrasful and it should go away.9 M3 f: Y9 M6 w6 ?
& K/ t$ B' F8 Z" T! vBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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. \8 K9 S; y5 n4 t; G# JDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
! @3 ]3 x( J6 |& s% U5 eafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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' L# f4 e' E8 s3 @Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu! O {$ J+ P. e
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- H. o. E/ K" V2 B' w/ l
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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' ~- O& ^- C& V( DIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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