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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will9 S- m8 y" |5 p0 f/ w
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was' a. a6 P1 Y6 M
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
. z6 T* Q+ C5 Z) u9 J1 sspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 I6 ^! d% j8 \" V- \
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"., W% Q$ }9 d1 C
# R P, H6 Q3 S U" L" m* x" mIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
, o- T% O5 j+ @0 x& x- [9 Z* nthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
5 z) c. C6 y( M* g/ { o, C/ zkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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$ w. q. U' V7 o' z; P% g! z$ P4 TThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 T& Y# @2 ?. C" Z* Z
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like4 O! q) k' q8 q* l9 C O8 i$ X
fotograf 20% shorter. r& @5 Y0 {: m8 @0 C" o# W
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 [* A9 M5 l8 @0 Sreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 l' v2 e6 `6 c2 b C: D6 |
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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. Y3 O$ [+ \" d8 n# m! ~Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is. J. ~! b# K# a' e2 b6 K$ t
disgrasful and it should go away.% k! o0 b9 n2 H O8 @. k
0 v$ Q( A5 g9 i: E) C, ^5 P7 zBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with$ {2 {3 y, F1 L
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and/ Q B! Z( X/ A& b- J f V
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.& x! b0 R( p6 R* V; u x
9 u8 S) q, U8 A8 R4 V6 ~Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu4 i2 s3 X% p% ]/ a5 `: ^+ U
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. w' b( R, z2 G, `3 {- f" M
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze) @& H! K8 g; J2 p- C, C( ?0 b! ^
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, t; b) u$ q! ?: j ZIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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