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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will# p, R s y v) l
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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( Q* J7 _8 x- O. |& h, R, WAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
7 f7 {/ P' ]. M8 c8 D: Gspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
3 c! Z5 a, H7 H8 o, hplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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$ ]/ A& f4 E/ L& l oIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make9 O1 k1 v" }& N( Y( e
the sivil servants jump with joy., _ i7 x% T. T; C
5 E9 E0 R5 l3 r/ G6 N |The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% Q- b8 H& Q0 R8 a1 D
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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! }: x' z: K! }/ O, u/ ?There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
% p4 W& C) m* m) R) qtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like3 n% Y" G, j5 J6 N7 y
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
* N) F3 ~; Y0 l1 }" C9 zreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible./ e( e# ~& [3 y& Z9 x! J/ g
' P" r5 H8 w0 J3 L1 t( S* ZGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
3 g+ Q$ v, ?& F- N% @7 Iben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is: F; C! j( h. R! N
disgrasful and it should go away.- L1 N t: M$ d' F6 {8 _- a
- c( G. R) G, jBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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$ G( K2 v# B- H7 ^" r( GDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
8 |& L. ^3 ?4 Q4 J+ |after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl./ R% p, X3 e% u" z2 P
- L& |; Q8 L1 M Q Y- W. aZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* J4 ?0 I. u9 L$ u' Q! a
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
- P3 [& O; l6 T6 y- |0 U. ?. qUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 @. [$ b! X7 O! m' n! Q
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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