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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! O" t0 K/ q: F* Y
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 English7 H( c7 n9 Z! F7 P8 q( D
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in* y* D- U& O' V) z7 h
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% b, f8 G% \4 J- X4 `, g- c- l
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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, ^( y" i* K1 R0 GThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
! l$ j% k3 ~& rkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.% L$ c" B2 q4 L; ? S+ \
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( m) W9 x# v# s- V1 H9 ^There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
4 Y Z. E( e. t, ~2 Rtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
" \: p+ I, J8 V7 Ifotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
5 L. U4 n/ B- |( t' B% ?/ o- ureach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible." @! f! i# Z- X9 P
% n6 r0 ]( w2 g m& ?! I; GGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always8 X" ~+ M* s' v! Y+ U6 |0 m* e* K
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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4 z+ e4 B( g, Z( P0 H4 wAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is1 h6 }1 q% V. f9 ?' m9 T7 U p
disgrasful and it should go away.: z3 A# V. @0 \# }& J7 ]
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
3 m% X$ l( L; E0 r: Q$ eafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.% y& }* e2 H& |
" e/ O a Y2 ^7 v) RZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
* g5 H; e; y* w7 b) M1 h8 W6 ?& uunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru." \( v- M2 z! T6 G# x# K/ M
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze" _' v* y5 g) O ~6 }
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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