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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' H, A) M6 e1 Y. I
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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# r, H9 Q! i* p3 pAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 ]" @5 o# t$ R3 zspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 o* A6 j$ e# N9 m" ]: A* V6 k
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".. c( }) X0 k0 Y% ]2 v1 B m
" X2 [0 m, {) P/ n2 b( m9 @- mIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
/ Q6 M9 \4 v5 a, Q7 B% ?the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: T# O( r2 |1 p j% H/ s- F7 ^2 xtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like( E& s% R' k1 k9 p, @; D
fotograf 20% shorter.
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7 r Y1 \8 k H7 N. jIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ _" I5 ?. t f8 Z# _4 I' ]reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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; E: c) Y9 F0 r2 C9 V7 EAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
6 d$ B& _* e/ i- E# c2 Y4 D( udisgrasful and it should go away.6 U6 L" y5 ^* W. t3 {& k6 _% t0 g: Y
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with* R& b8 \1 | L# @
"z" and "w" with "v".5 O7 o- @9 P8 ]7 S
9 G: S7 h$ w# z0 c. P5 bDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
/ A& k& S- J5 X7 d. }after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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( q, V1 l+ I% q7 p# U( b7 NZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu, _6 u" n( o- v- Y* K
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 U9 _) ?0 ^8 D# v" y% y$ j- O- p2 C
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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