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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will* i5 |# I- H" k) ^1 F1 S4 m0 l) n/ _
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was4 Q! i. s+ { p c+ k7 O
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English6 q1 K5 Q; p5 Z
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ d: O& K, T% v6 E4 o
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".& P1 _2 q( G \0 V! y4 B
3 O; o: l% O6 BIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
# a H4 _ V N- c) P' V4 [3 Mthe sivil servants jump with joy.4 J s, B8 [" L' r2 S+ i
9 l8 p) e U* PThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% r! V- d1 k, q# F' [
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
& z/ K, J4 S8 N" `* B# otroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like* _$ I; J6 |/ p( D: j9 Q( a0 i. Z
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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& i3 H5 r9 a" BGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
) }1 s" v' R$ Y7 l4 ?- x. Rben a deterent to akurate speling.
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) M4 `) J1 W' EAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is9 `* E% O% c& ~0 S
disgrasful and it should go away.
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; x* a1 n3 M& \5 L9 QBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ o$ Y+ I( i: s: {/ N4 B3 F2 t
"z" and "w" with "v".
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3 _4 x9 E9 z: b( S$ t. q" O6 iDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
& @/ a. v) H$ L& Q, |' Rafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.2 a2 m; J! ?9 N3 _
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu9 h ^- G8 t7 v6 h7 q" p1 V
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
5 o F" _0 Y! }0 A% H. u! gUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze1 @2 ]( A& D5 q0 A5 |/ v/ E
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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