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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, W9 _ M" U: Qbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
! g* o; H+ }5 g n% Y! Z7 `3 nthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 P4 m9 G; C- g g
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in! @3 L8 W& h3 U3 n
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 R z. n+ K; N6 u* \$ Q
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
& o% w3 E: M1 H: R/ v Tkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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$ ?8 G, E; D; g* T e8 @There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
3 ?; O6 `7 ]3 z5 I9 x$ vtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
7 u5 R/ i+ }" g! G9 Y0 xfotograf 20% shorter. w7 `, d- D+ O0 [7 ^
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
2 C# j6 J& i. ~1 u3 ?2 ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
, H/ f! E% u- |; w& j% U3 sben a deterent to akurate speling.7 {- @0 W* u: z2 {8 w" I
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
$ L$ U$ T) @: ? K' t" |( Zdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
1 [; s+ V' @: I2 _2 f/ M! R0 {"z" and "w" with "v".
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! _# V: z# f. k5 o4 I. T$ ?1 o: hDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* h o/ k L$ i j; G* zafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. l' L# P- a" F0 M6 g0 |
. T1 ^ n+ \- N" a( P( SZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu/ j% Y9 a, y. L @; }
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
% \. F/ S/ B9 P2 {1 A, mUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 h4 x9 U* @( D( @2 i
forst plas.
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' t& \2 n8 w( ?) _If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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