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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 a$ }6 `8 E) o
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
7 s: {0 l% q) Y& w3 [8 ithe other possibility.
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6 `5 u/ u6 t& A: wAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English5 f' W4 g) p8 c0 H& V- p+ Z3 _4 i
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ U" B4 i# G0 Y3 i
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".2 y" p6 X, K& R0 [
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make& ^0 L6 h$ c* j; g$ ^* B
the sivil servants jump with joy.7 Y0 k- o7 b( `% k) z
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
8 }0 \' b: c: j. y/ [konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.8 c) h; b! f- a$ B2 |
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the" l- {8 M1 r6 |& g. K) v# h6 J. R
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
( O/ d9 ^4 S/ S5 P3 ifotograf 20% shorter.1 _* u: E* f0 `* h/ ?' A" Y
$ E% n {. L" `& x4 p) TIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to7 Y& `4 Q, H! l( a% `* _# k
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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4 ?1 z3 c6 l; K& P; N- t0 `Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- ` w' ?4 [4 f N# i
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 X! H @; p" n% Y/ ^
disgrasful and it should go away.
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# T5 p7 B& ]5 L/ bBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
5 { c! h* _$ t8 S1 ^* N"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
1 ]+ F) y- A8 F4 qafter 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
2 q, ?- H; T5 I* S4 u: ?understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.* {5 l: v6 a7 A( C* n8 ~
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 B+ _) C3 _' k8 ~0 ]* J
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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