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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- Y1 w; Q' {8 A( A+ W% L
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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. l4 Z- Q/ r7 L1 }As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
6 |0 R9 ^- U" G8 N9 y- Y7 Ospelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in1 Q) u4 ?& T' s h& [' G
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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2 v) H+ }- V% b4 @+ v7 XIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 q' H) _! X- Q! W2 N9 k
the sivil servants jump with joy.5 v, ^8 m) `- X7 [( j# _
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
, ~ ^% H) H$ s5 k* O: Skonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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h! P3 P8 D+ a, Z7 o6 R7 uThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the) d3 A0 ^7 }6 j* Y8 G/ o
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like% x) @; c* c- u7 V" `/ M7 x
fotograf 20% shorter.
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2 @8 o! {) H' B. f7 ~3 j# WIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to9 P! J& G8 P! X$ p6 x" I" o( X1 E7 T
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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2 T" ~, P# l0 g! p- R( kGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
1 k" k# n9 f4 j: p6 }7 Sben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is8 O: A0 b0 b, I% v8 D
disgrasful and it should go away.
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! i, K2 P( _. S( t% jBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
5 Q8 N' i/ r- g, W5 P7 _"z" and "w" with "v".# _8 V$ k: G. Z7 B
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
! G5 k; p/ h# s( ?% K" _after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 k. @; R- I7 i+ {0 R; _
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* U% u U, `$ Q7 u
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
* Y3 M2 T* t2 v8 _Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze# k2 o0 y, D, j" J6 ?" i) V- G, Z
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3 ~9 j" X" l* k8 o/ E% U7 V2 p. UIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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