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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will1 \4 _1 y2 V7 P5 i" m. ^4 E" d
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ z2 V) A/ Q% s
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& Q# h8 o2 w1 B EAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
( p- A) I+ o' zspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& @5 A! E j. r8 U) \ L+ nplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".# N- N/ h x5 L; j
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make) \# _; l( a' V6 O6 i8 ~5 g& E
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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( |# E# Q4 Q6 i. G* ^% }2 F6 G% CThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up, Z: v% ?3 g% z$ t. g2 J
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* p( B/ j$ M0 x# y: U, a
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& v9 I) x! x* R lThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the% s6 z% }4 J, c) S! O
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like X* |! \8 `6 N/ G( a
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to/ d2 @! F# {/ i
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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+ e& G+ c- ]0 D* K6 ]- W9 o! mGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
) C0 v$ M7 O7 ~5 k) gben a deterent to akurate speling.% O6 l% Z; i% `/ }9 Y
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is8 v( S7 e3 Q: @. L; o' r) n$ D+ D, b
disgrasful and it should go away.
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( }$ _3 o9 K# P( h8 KBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with, |, W, N* P' e$ H: L' o h/ I
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* S- V+ m- N: ]" F" q6 Dafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl." [! h: S ?: [. J& ]$ z1 S# Z0 c
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: ]% B! @7 W; P' ~4 Z3 m6 ]4 o
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ h& c X3 q5 F) w
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze" t0 \8 v7 n0 C0 J3 p" I
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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