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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will% _+ ^$ X( Q* a+ q; x
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# |$ Z9 I% v& @4 Y
the other possibility.2 I. O' z1 K# C) T$ j+ G
! s2 M! q# V2 k4 G3 X* }As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English- \% w5 o3 I6 H& F
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* o, g9 g9 F. ^+ p0 tplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 R& g+ L- D% }- I, j7 a
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
" _! _ G* H# F& Y; l6 z! n5 Dkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.1 f% J3 w' V9 w- V- G' I
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. w4 g5 F* x3 c. h% J7 O1 cThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
. e' o% P3 p( \3 |0 ~8 }" Itroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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% D" C% `" H/ MIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ m/ R+ s/ R' S: Y# m! B0 zreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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* B8 ]' U+ l+ LAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
9 {7 q. H6 D* }; ~( }disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 C5 w7 b: u" ?( D8 u8 x: m
"z" and "w" with "v".9 O9 E3 h' h! o7 w c5 [2 T
) D# o) z0 j& f) o0 kDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
! Z" s B/ o+ S! Hafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.! ?! ^& T, d( f# T0 [( j* ^4 J$ |
, z1 ~& K2 l0 _* ]Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
7 p3 B# a3 t4 n/ |/ nunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.# w7 L: g) ^; g! _5 @
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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# z, e% n- Z2 y: ]2 g3 lIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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