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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will1 l* `: t6 {! Y: d
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was* v% N( ~4 d' g! \1 T
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. c! I, m' v g5 @5 ]# `; {
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
|' U: y' b# C4 Gplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% g; F& C4 r0 Z: G5 {% k! A
/ K0 N) f A6 HIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make# K5 r- }- E7 d' f7 _ g* ~0 h5 K
the sivil servants jump with joy.3 ]# C. @$ ^( x* I
# f2 B7 g' A$ z9 f+ yThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; \% h5 r; @- }: ~4 {) i
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.( r) D2 r, c2 H( v* |$ Y
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the6 T: R& b5 v Y- X
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
" ] C% q& `7 ~: }" q0 S$ c9 Kreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.' _9 s6 l6 X, p, Z2 J0 E
1 Y$ L" j+ z5 c* k2 Q0 WGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
* [: A2 z/ ^+ e9 W' vben a deterent to akurate speling.$ \( T$ q2 ^. i. u
% w% G! A0 f% w- A* E, WAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' |0 h" I- t2 U8 ^/ k1 @disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( y8 f0 U5 O0 u" x
"z" and "w" with "v".; |9 i& b" @0 B! |7 y- d0 M
; |3 t3 W( G8 q% iDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 T' O# ^6 M0 C2 a- Y, T$ fafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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/ ^- M. |% |" e b8 vZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
( L0 {# G; h! v1 ?1 D+ kunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.5 n- l- r& N0 I3 d' {' w4 v
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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