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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will5 T6 u, _* {5 g$ ?2 d& E8 w
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was ]. {9 ]- L3 W( |) ]7 D' a( e7 ~
the other possibility.
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5 J! c" l3 ?6 N7 g5 `As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
4 A* h3 o8 ]; _7 ?3 Y- ospelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
7 T% A* o# C' I- V/ k9 s f4 x. \! yplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".6 k L6 Z4 U. q6 }+ {
$ z; {5 F/ k4 W4 ]8 {1 N$ jIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make; `+ _4 a: t* [1 p! d* w a
the sivil servants jump with joy.' X1 z$ \* ~" G( _# ~' v
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
) j, u( m& a% H8 l5 J* ykonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.8 A4 p0 M! C0 f9 B; X6 y; ]
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; `4 |( l; _) ZThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ o) o% u v$ f( a8 C5 [4 p4 }+ Etroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
: O$ z( B7 h `fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to/ A% n1 \ t7 y
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- H( m1 h4 L* S- z
) {3 {; ^ w5 h* K5 m) }" L# q IGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
6 K- t; U! \3 u8 U3 h6 D7 _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 is
- V5 Y0 n' h. y5 a8 ]. h# mdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# m% W- v. T* {. h: A% y
"z" and "w" with "v".8 s% B2 x# b0 A8 b% b
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and$ I. ~5 l/ N; J
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) j% ^3 w5 n8 c2 Y r* ]7 }3 }
6 `7 |: V4 k2 Q& oZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
0 w# v9 [' O5 Z Y" i8 T( Funderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.3 T, |9 x2 G+ a6 j% ^
Und 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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