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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will1 e1 R! u$ B. W9 S+ E2 d3 u
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 q4 b* a# ~& c" [
the other possibility.
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# k* l- N/ ]4 A3 q7 C. hAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
( |* H8 T; v, X8 D9 zspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
% n" M0 E3 K: }plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".. R, G; ~0 R0 N5 a4 E
7 Y* ^6 J2 s4 ~In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make) |( l2 E! K6 j% A, V7 |2 d
the sivil servants jump with joy.& J: I+ |. N: x( \. B4 u
+ g/ v8 r5 u p; aThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ K6 @9 B! B' }
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.0 b% L7 a. O" j% \+ S) Q$ j1 s
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" I1 I! {& k% n2 |1 n+ OThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the+ @$ A# a. n& b( y
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
6 T& X" `; q8 }# }$ r) v1 I8 ofotograf 20% shorter.
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9 L5 e( X$ i% h6 }In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
) P3 l* {- O1 {/ e: vreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* E3 g. q M! q* A
" z2 @" M" v! |2 x7 YGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always2 K' ]4 B( X9 ^+ t: V/ ?
ben a deterent to akurate speling." `4 _) [3 I, ] r+ @& R
" d' U) J3 J; D' I/ z: T4 tAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is$ j. s6 K' Q+ C! u
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* ]/ L1 I" m5 F; J. \- V6 N6 h; u
"z" and "w" with "v".
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) `: b9 l" V3 O3 cDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
# |/ H# u- l8 }' ?2 v/ \$ U! Dafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. I/ s$ w" ^! B2 f
, z- m9 _; @# [6 m0 RZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
% U0 a; d. R# q# U4 z( b/ sunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. J" `9 t3 ~* x1 g7 P+ K c
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze- l" j( g; d; B$ D6 H7 a
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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