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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will# m9 t8 N" h4 i, \9 s
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" Q8 Q' ^+ G3 x4 G6 U5 N' \
the other possibility.
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: w2 d9 g8 T k, {2 ~7 u+ H2 c) n# CAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
1 v5 W, g7 v+ X& R7 Y" |, N. Gspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" j. v7 c/ t; x# E, M3 l i
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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# Q3 e7 q8 ?/ F! D0 B3 L! r% i$ `# xIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make" ~& ^2 X9 ]; E l9 K7 ?
the sivil servants jump with joy.1 |. r" R4 M. P5 G0 v6 ~) G& k$ A2 {
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up8 X( y5 {- ]1 a: i5 d% T# S9 S: M
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.3 I, a- G: K* C$ c5 h& @( \8 D2 s. n
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* o) G! O! o5 @6 i0 HThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& O" P+ d* Z1 i: {8 r* ]2 c
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 H+ N, V( g# ]7 ?+ W1 {" Kfotograf 20% shorter.) ~1 w0 b: T5 S4 ~
" [5 U; [+ a% v" t. V5 I2 cIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to& K# j8 M& e6 @8 ~7 }6 Z; f
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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! a. I& }9 }* @! u/ h! T+ [ e- W- QAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
3 c; K) J2 z/ r8 R9 K$ r5 @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& O6 [1 E' e8 a) `+ _
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and p7 v) v0 R2 e
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
: a' ]; u0 [8 `. z0 c, [2 qunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 x/ h1 D* A2 Y+ g8 u0 JUnd 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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