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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will6 M) k8 o E& b, R: ^
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
! j8 a" F1 W4 {2 [2 l, o9 Qspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
! w0 V) P5 g& y, _plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 r& \) a* r6 T/ t) s
the sivil servants jump with joy.8 {" I( e4 t( c/ \, O6 S1 {
r: t* h5 Y) u9 W: XThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up' J: j8 C8 h* ^" D1 ]1 _7 V2 _* o" `
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
7 P, K' a1 X- F% P: j; U, C9 `troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
) f# \# u W6 r8 ^8 X, r: f9 X; ufotograf 20% shorter.# ]; I5 A) ~5 e) I+ C' S$ ~
# A& Y$ U3 R, }. F, E9 K: U, |+ ]In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to+ P* A( q9 n! e& J6 f$ a
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.4 t. { a& T8 w5 W
3 V, q7 a; w+ P5 M; t* m1 i2 nGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: G+ W9 T z8 L/ ]
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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" j9 e- c1 H. m( x0 g5 XAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
! Z3 L) Q: H w( g3 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* k# ]" d4 P1 u) d, T
"z" and "w" with "v".
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2 _$ D! p% u7 \; [/ t: b- s6 d% vDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, z4 i+ D! G iafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.2 o, n6 C0 g/ V
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
4 V& U% W3 `7 X/ y4 ?understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru." e( }: P$ n9 p' K& ^
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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, e& x' M' H7 y4 F) @If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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