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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will2 G8 l. |& S5 [ M: f b
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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) g* M" M9 z6 ]' a% XAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
+ Z9 F' e; w. T. C Aspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 w7 v: i8 Q9 c3 n
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".1 P6 }* d' L# C0 ^4 V" ~6 h L3 n
; A- C. h: {, o: N% wIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make" ~; t) K! f6 v" |' u
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up! x/ l# N& E: v5 G
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.) D! _7 t( r3 m
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% J) Q) \/ |# j% p" ^. tThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
p. X( Z1 O7 i% n9 Ntroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like5 i# [. P% s# q6 J
fotograf 20% shorter." O! f1 n6 c" m, p& S. \( Z1 {
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to% Y% G! q/ @" N3 Y n5 Z2 i' k. `
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* a! G9 q% j2 s4 F2 A
2 |+ k" Z9 a0 ^' _2 wGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
: t& ]4 y; B, h: X! ~/ e+ Qben a deterent to akurate speling.: Y5 i1 h0 R0 E% f
2 O! j- C3 ?. e% r2 ^! |' V* eAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is& Y6 ~9 I( A! s' T, e- ^3 g* o: E
disgrasful and it should go away.' D7 v6 d ?$ L5 K5 b. c9 b1 T( v
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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( W0 O; [7 R Y2 a1 L$ L
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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# u% P- P( ?, E; M! tZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: A$ @0 U# n! @& l" M
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
, o: H$ B5 |, p6 pUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 V: m7 p d/ c. @# e& G4 K2 R0 E
forst plas.
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0 m4 R6 W0 j( q8 N% z+ N% V% U z% rIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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