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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' ?3 D9 t3 K, M" ?" t6 }4 i: P' _
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
( ]1 D9 M6 t) r9 ]* i6 ?spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in) T8 B: ~8 Q; o) a( q
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make9 C( \& h, n& C6 [1 w S9 W
the sivil servants jump with joy.* u. r1 }( E( h3 w
1 j* v% j9 w2 B# g& xThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
+ z7 _) g& ~/ Z- m7 b1 Pkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ G* K+ m3 D- g+ r
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- W; I1 D9 K8 E4 T0 d& RThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; z H# q. F/ H* }) P3 q* }# Btroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, f% ]0 E" w5 d0 f& Y5 ]fotograf 20% shorter.' G9 G) }! ]' `! W I
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to! x1 w P Q! s. i: Z$ G$ S4 M
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* `/ Y L+ s' H6 t$ {2 c
% W; ]; Z8 @5 \" _2 NGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- v8 X2 P# H! j9 m4 T8 |+ y
ben a deterent to akurate speling./ T0 D- {; f, ]6 ^" ]: U4 B
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
. w/ C$ Y: H7 K' x# P3 tdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with5 [' A0 b, K! g! ]$ i! O, a
"z" and "w" with "v".7 k: e# p* d# _, m# O" a
/ {3 h8 Z. e" Z% A! n5 f6 R% F) o5 hDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and3 Q5 f P% H. Q
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* w& ?. I. p' @' R) `
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.3 |1 h6 u6 {. R" U+ l" R
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze% T" R4 h! k: T: d9 d, }/ Y, C! ?
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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