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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will( Z6 z4 R# A1 U6 j8 _: K" Q
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was9 ]+ i/ b; b" `
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
9 L, `0 T% i. p; Jspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 U# S. d5 a! e# z- t7 p1 f! O& n) v
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".6 @3 V0 w: V7 A$ T( K/ `
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 ?7 r; u4 r8 J' r
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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3 K6 X9 k3 e5 e+ c" `The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up. @) _! H" l6 ~0 W D9 n& Y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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- B' D4 l- I Z! zThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the" ^% x* V0 F9 q
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like: V s( @0 M; F- s d$ U4 _: c& {
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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, m! J' }2 Y! I7 kGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; C$ j/ d+ `" x5 x9 v' K* hben a deterent to akurate speling.) l( j8 ^) G, ]2 W- _/ w
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is u& V8 z3 ~( f7 p j
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+ f6 n' c9 \6 C9 U) F
"z" and "w" with "v".
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( R9 v+ C5 @0 @7 V3 o( N- W- xDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
" ?2 O/ Q3 C$ C5 i# U+ x9 Iafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.0 {$ g) J( @) E/ i, ? l& q
, o; a. T$ R: l- ]/ \Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
- v9 k& n. o5 @3 W: z6 w6 J5 Yunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- } n$ _6 D: m* q0 W* [: ]
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 i9 k* D" W! y ^7 H
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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