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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
4 e; W8 k6 C( G1 [# u! v7 xbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was: o5 }7 j& J3 Q/ a9 s' \
the other possibility.
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9 L4 y- o, S" b EAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English' }0 C6 V) |0 h. E5 C4 a/ g
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
1 d; S3 R. F0 ]) N" K* ]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* M! r1 ~3 G) H% h( s
the sivil servants jump with joy.# ~, q; X3 Y2 @' g
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
. g7 g8 W5 X" r$ t# N4 i5 `konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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, |3 M! O* y0 N2 k: ~There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, C8 W8 X) f; m: r
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like9 b* k3 n6 `) w4 l/ Q
fotograf 20% shorter.
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3 A6 F& [- b3 CIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' X7 U; a& ~% a$ mreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.8 Q$ n, O; H( j) `$ R
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always5 `8 `9 ?+ V- u, F) U
ben a deterent to akurate speling.6 z& u* k4 y/ D# R3 X
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
6 _8 i7 ]$ F$ Tdisgrasful and it should go away.+ _2 E" g$ R# K
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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0 n- c. V' G+ H% aDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
9 V( O6 l: U% O' L$ @$ _after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) p4 H) f' W5 ?# g9 [
3 L) G4 b3 R9 E: ^+ w4 e, BZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* T* N5 P6 d8 @8 @0 l' l/ W
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.! {( Q: b' B2 {) k/ q2 t, Y4 u
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze& y+ h% p6 Z) w6 t( _$ r: D
forst plas.% ~5 L% {/ F# P( }! J3 e
4 ^% i4 F- L* p N) iIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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