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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ z" D) F1 k7 K1 {6 K. y4 f; D- D
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was0 H$ s! H" v/ q
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
# o* d' W ~6 X2 p$ e2 sspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
$ j6 @; `/ A0 D3 l" `7 x( Pplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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( p; K2 n4 v8 O' H1 v( FIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
+ f/ a7 O$ c) a! e' O, e* X' Sthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up& }) N; y9 ^; |+ X( o8 W2 c
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. I1 H' N! C" n6 z
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- {. u: ~& d: ]+ O7 V1 VThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ u1 ~' H9 a; u/ Utroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like' {# t: i5 e" t) D( {
fotograf 20% shorter." X% a7 s) B0 d. [, |( f, T) U1 l
7 ^: S( F( [" W, F1 Q3 i+ RIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to R% q9 y0 U+ g+ A- [: s2 V
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. m+ e( e/ y+ B4 q% V
4 \7 i% G* I$ }% lGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always3 O. g8 T' o1 O" r: s: D" v
ben a deterent to akurate speling.' o" r) C* X- L' n1 _( D% I) t9 I
2 Z7 f8 x9 R: a1 r- KAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is/ z0 K( j+ S) l& ~2 B
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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% w9 j+ S8 l2 g( E' ]# j) |% KDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and2 ]% \& _( \1 |, {3 X
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 ^: J7 F1 E- J+ _
% b% A. M e0 R; g! ~Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" f2 h8 `5 r# |/ D2 Junderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 W) y; ]& y p; [8 kUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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