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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
6 i: d$ @! y C) t/ Sbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
( y- I* ?' H! G( @the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
" ~/ H7 G+ _+ [! h# T# y. I6 Nspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
! J: `4 A7 k3 R- i1 D1 K/ ]plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".; ?- G# ?# E- Y, z8 d
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make$ ?" {2 s" S9 [7 d4 S0 u( q$ N
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% c6 p7 }2 `& k5 U' j7 d
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 T9 z( w3 \8 b8 q W
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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q4 V) B( ]( D/ \8 |5 SIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
8 \/ b |) p/ P1 y6 Q5 {reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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. g# B4 ~- X3 l2 S, t5 X0 iGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
! k) Z# W. r& X( o# Hdisgrasful and it should go away.
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& ?* b: \' w* A. v1 o1 k; Z5 B3 S' WBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( ?4 L$ A3 }. J: d l" O& o
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and x+ B' I# C! G+ C
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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! S" [; O q: Q5 q* dZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
! d G+ E4 ?# K+ R5 o3 Aunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
& J) F; t" \- q l# k+ ]% c: ]( 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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