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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 A0 X* d3 Y6 v2 B# ~: v
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was3 C& h6 B+ K, A9 @. d" Z9 d
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English9 B1 ?) t Q d3 }
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
3 V/ o! ?4 M) ?8 M. wplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".+ z+ A& [0 k$ [8 F8 t, j
/ G# {5 R% G* ]! m( Z. L4 j1 BIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
1 a: h4 F/ v3 B2 ]the sivil servants jump with joy.+ g- E& j8 Q7 Q$ H0 Z6 f- m
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% b6 ]. X8 U4 i& A: f: W7 y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., D$ o! ~7 u( T5 i! E X, l
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2 ? T$ f4 m* w; d' d1 V1 pThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
" m" M" A: N) l5 p' Atroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
5 v' ]) i5 W% O9 v/ `, E0 Z/ w) S7 Pfotograf 20% shorter.
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6 i2 S% ]2 v: v# ]; e( P* I9 T m0 EIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
, D3 K6 A+ @6 @& j6 G+ P+ g$ S- Yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible." G; H; l# [0 C% r* |" C' y
1 z" ]: P5 O( ]* ` P6 {; HGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always( G7 S: l& S- s; g/ P& K: H, v d T6 }
ben a deterent to akurate speling.% k( J3 l: h- \, ~6 b
9 L0 V. _5 c/ b" K5 ~( C& e' J0 eAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
S0 T$ h' a- m Q% sdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% K/ V5 M) W7 B. w* c1 m# l
"z" and "w" with "v".' I O {! X4 ~0 \- u
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
3 K6 l. \* E5 O, F9 lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.+ B `* i; B" `5 f+ p
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
6 G5 }3 }) b$ S4 o2 Q2 Z& wunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.9 j3 M2 q1 l7 ~% V! v
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze U7 U2 u9 K$ K) z
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+ T, Y7 S, Y2 D' |/ z2 zIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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