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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
- Y, C/ e2 U. O7 @9 }$ }4 mbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was' z& k: D' o) c: X6 H3 S% p
the other possibility.7 k( ?8 `$ Y. v$ u4 H% ^* h) p
7 e: {% n: n9 v) {8 T0 _8 BAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
4 v! r' v$ c4 W v9 U# ^spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
1 E s4 L& q" A# s3 S7 Wplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".' o, P4 |( r k! f9 g9 l) @7 {$ I- G
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make7 e$ r$ @( G& t3 H! H
the sivil servants jump with joy.7 Z5 R" J; q( C" v
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
* K- y( V0 n3 s7 wkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.1 b% C; e0 d4 L! e
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/ [ G; I# r+ v0 [There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
! a" m! K8 Y9 x, h0 p ytroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like: J2 M1 ~$ t6 D4 M
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
7 r, M6 o6 r! p( ~* s2 G3 y Oreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always7 u$ e3 U8 ]; D' U* M2 O( i
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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2 U/ O( `; D# t" Q2 U% s- sAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
: S. O$ O2 k! b% O& Udisgrasful and it should go away.
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* ?$ U1 Y5 X( N& L& RBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with, m! X* u1 [5 S
"z" and "w" with "v".
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0 {4 e' w' l, u7 @" k% ~During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 _ a7 z) F7 t. eafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.% v+ z- ~" x4 v! X
( D9 K. {& }+ ~& i& WZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
+ N/ N7 C! X( |understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.' |3 G0 S6 y/ h* y( P/ l
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 `( D+ V: W2 j+ ?
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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