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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will7 ^* }) E9 X' n
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
9 u; G: I# B, {, C( C" }" y. O- S/ Xthe other possibility.9 N- T& ^% u* r G7 c" q5 N4 w
; i* R C3 j: W& yAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English! b/ V, L3 l' {$ l2 A
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in9 U/ s; y- Y2 G F% a
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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( i7 U; O2 C/ ~# R1 D9 X9 @- b& xIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make6 f. n* I/ e4 c
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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) \$ ?3 s1 N. Q3 }+ u1 s% `2 [The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up9 S- u& [- d8 ^
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.8 A$ t! y# ^6 ~5 ?7 C* P6 j6 a I
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" u/ P i. U: O$ L! bThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: p" s. T- m4 k5 \
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 f9 _0 A7 ?+ G: E9 R) D* `$ ~+ jfotograf 20% shorter.: A/ R: R: K7 y+ d( C9 @ {& ~8 K
* T- R& J4 V9 U' jIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. x7 V3 t4 O1 d$ J7 L
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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* _2 j- O- @1 n8 _8 e/ K. aGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! k7 o4 F! `( d
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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% X4 ?& {' U/ hAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is0 @' h6 j8 Y& m: j' ~# [
disgrasful and it should go away.9 J) V3 R: e, n
+ C( E8 p% I: U9 R8 Y7 L4 XBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with4 [% }! Z" n6 ]! E- E
"z" and "w" with "v".7 i5 M: Y# Y3 s: @, K) N
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and/ S. N6 h7 u" k# Z8 H
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.1 o- B7 ^$ |9 w6 `; P# n* h! s
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
3 a6 X& ?# E: t' D3 ]3 \/ w% bunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
( e/ i. R$ s/ @) b, |Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 r+ l0 y; H( ~1 o
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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