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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
" e, X' B0 V0 T r+ c$ W5 P8 Fbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was& A5 P; l o2 u0 g+ Z* P
the other possibility.
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# t( d7 P8 \3 m W; n+ H f+ RAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English6 c" |: Q$ A8 `' i. e
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% T/ f* K9 r5 D5 m
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".; F# J$ i& u: x. C+ O
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
5 y/ E6 O6 c) k" P0 f) M( d9 x9 ethe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up) Q3 ]8 D/ T3 P$ U
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.( ^$ u9 K/ T$ x4 u, w# U/ {9 w+ v. b
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the0 v/ n* N0 D. b, j4 y
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
* ?$ ~8 N; V4 ~: x# h; ?$ mreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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! M( J8 o* A3 ]6 g. ~/ S5 l) ?Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always; H# o! `5 G/ M8 V0 k& G
ben a deterent to akurate speling.) D' R% a" K0 \7 G2 j
6 o2 }. w$ }8 TAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
* a) |6 Y4 [# o- Q, Jdisgrasful and it should go away.6 ^% G/ o- ^4 K [
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
/ U( K. i# r" G( ^after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.. L4 z) Q1 L5 R B0 n: j8 [
* X& L! d# T8 g: P8 |3 [6 p* {, xZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu1 c7 T3 P' x4 Q* a: d7 k4 |, R, b6 a
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.' P! p' a- `! ^( k6 C
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze9 m, p1 o7 Y- P- Z& G9 F
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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