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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will" J [2 O# q! G2 e
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was) _" l& v: {2 j# \% j" z; ~! Q
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. B0 `2 J' {$ S- w: \
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
6 [) G7 J$ u) T$ O) S, {* _! rplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ i2 U) P; J4 b2 Z
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make( E) E; _$ j# i- p: T5 u
the sivil servants jump with joy.9 o9 S8 f+ _4 t
8 B. Z7 ^+ g8 d( S# Q6 U' SThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up5 i }+ }6 \4 @6 T5 ^/ k
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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: {7 j" d& Y) e+ r6 U- NThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the; H# d2 A5 U8 G
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 Q! X* a% U6 p3 p4 b: a
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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4 ?' b7 N3 \! L, n5 F5 ~: ]Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always; q" X! L# {2 t7 V% k# Z; a1 S# z
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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- J$ D' a" Z ?/ \0 S; Q6 i' nAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
o( P; W/ o; v5 e, _8 jdisgrasful and it should go away.4 M$ }& ? j5 B8 k0 ?" x" {
4 ]* L$ h3 I( V9 YBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with, P# g3 I _& B& T1 P' c M
"z" and "w" with "v".) z3 |, w4 j( K" N
+ r$ m7 x6 K' XDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" w$ q& [" [& S/ H; z- j
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.( s h$ ?- m, _* G! F g9 M# `1 I* e
/ i+ x4 Q, Z4 zZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu4 z; }& h( P/ n! y7 {4 G2 A
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
9 U# f5 b0 |0 x6 U* G# T% ZUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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