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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
7 |+ k7 X6 N8 d" ~be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was. b8 O4 r# o8 I
the other possibility.
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; d6 s: L; s, l* B/ I" v1 W+ _As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
$ S O& y5 X6 e3 Z! Qspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- R5 k. P, X- s8 D
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
( d, ?8 I( ^3 [% G! cthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ r0 M5 S" e' h
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ X. i/ w+ y0 ]! R6 S
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3 [; C) E, K' JThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
3 S& |1 `+ G' R5 _: n4 O1 Etroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
4 M! d3 Y+ K# K9 y: i: k! D% Dfotograf 20% shorter.6 \. Z, a0 K3 V. Q& U* [9 x
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to( a; h! w8 u4 @2 g. P0 B5 x
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.$ T$ L) e( o" Z7 t9 r
6 }' n) `/ k( I& UGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always. {+ X" h( f5 `8 W6 e, L
ben a deterent to akurate speling.4 E9 A* ^* ?9 a/ m
9 e6 R( W3 i6 f8 q" f" IAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is# B. t& `" m, M* d B; K
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
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" E2 B. a( L7 q6 U; E5 {$ V0 y" x" kDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) U8 |- [5 \, Y' Pafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 J% M, H* n* K: _: Z( f; U
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu( q" i' E+ T) B# q; v1 T8 O% B
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
' C: b% L/ V) a$ CUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze' i/ P# w/ \) ?: b( G: F: I2 I
forst plas.
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) M1 _/ p, h2 qIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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