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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
" z# f/ O0 _7 Fbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was6 K/ [1 J9 N+ E% P" ~9 C' |; ~6 F
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 }- A/ p' _* ? jspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
% }4 i" V8 l' Z2 Uplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".; Y9 Z1 e8 F4 L3 E2 I$ E1 L
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make* R0 d$ l k8 z& r
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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0 ^# q. q) }0 V6 G8 Q8 n6 e4 O1 R5 eThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up! F& M6 M9 X$ g8 K1 Q; ^1 o
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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1 q# G2 C4 r& dThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& g6 b* e* ]0 c
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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' e' b5 g0 }( n- s+ {; A" x, @Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is0 A* O2 ~" b9 a+ y/ V: G; ?! }
disgrasful and it should go away.9 m, R+ H; W4 }' w, ?- X- v
& t, D9 Z+ N( J; {) uBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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. g4 t) ^3 {( I# b8 z8 n5 Y" s" bDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and g6 ~* y& b, P+ H2 u6 N( I( w1 H
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.9 U) Z9 n! L" i0 R; z+ | ^$ Q
, o* i7 }5 z9 zZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
' R. M. O. }) y V* l) B2 o) sunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.+ Z- i9 B2 h) N6 ~) U4 X
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze5 F B* B" x6 {& r) o! k7 o: E
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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