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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will6 R1 s6 ]" s2 |! W
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ q4 @# ]. ~) {5 s. U
the other possibility.; U* ~) w3 i* c/ ^9 g
$ W+ h3 E {$ y2 j6 yAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English3 L4 N/ ^5 J6 e, Y# B( ]# m) I' N
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 a4 H2 d9 E' m3 Y! M
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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6 T5 |) g; F* ^+ r) T+ FIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make4 F% v: {! `3 n0 h5 B
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
: Z. B8 w$ `5 V* P% r- bkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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3 L9 B U5 t7 S( sThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the5 e: ?: T7 [% I: t2 o
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like$ s& b: e# z5 Y" g7 j7 h6 M {
fotograf 20% shorter.+ R. S( U+ p7 v+ L
+ S" |+ V# R; D8 m g' e/ _& l# uIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
6 `$ }, l S. ]3 D6 a* N Greach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.0 K& W; O4 K' h' h8 e C! q( n& ]
+ d% F. [% V1 X1 l. j3 Z' SGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" H+ F. G/ s* F T J/ q4 T! [# U8 q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.7 R! D. `3 ]) o
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
a: Q. K, s3 y- ]0 k) Y# kdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with W* K% k+ Y9 H# Y
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 V0 z$ V U8 n2 `3 b$ hafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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% x1 M5 `, |' `; @4 B: E' j. q' cZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu9 f) j' ]! R+ V' S1 a
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
" s- X& ^; \9 M1 hUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 G; o% G/ n$ o6 t, m6 K2 x
forst plas./ G: Q' d9 z$ B( s5 n3 n* U! p" G
! _8 x0 T3 l( O. F0 O/ B% \If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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