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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will1 E2 V$ j- ?, i# d% ^
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was9 b0 @( Q& ~2 c; f6 Y' D* p, {" F5 l. `! z
the other possibility.
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3 T4 W6 @, R/ R# U! p) b) RAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
8 r7 X5 m& D; U- }spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
2 E/ X* L) h& C+ e* @6 Gplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% i2 e' w+ n, k: R9 @4 c
! b5 I: @1 R! f; y- N$ gIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make1 k1 ]5 k4 q. F5 R0 F8 |
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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$ }! p+ U1 ~ U3 G5 tThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ H' W4 e0 C7 i/ P5 K& {konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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% r* P$ C+ A) ]$ @6 d$ uThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, v3 M+ c& K/ Ltroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! A; c% t' U" |: u0 n
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' b# V- e- u% z1 lreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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, ^$ F. N( V! I2 b# k( V: CGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! G3 j' C8 a+ P+ Y6 u/ V% a7 @9 o
ben a deterent to akurate speling.9 K2 l; s8 L% P: n
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
4 O* t; o& {, v7 qdisgrasful and it should go away.* H9 A, T4 n5 k+ A+ Y
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! G8 @- G3 `; | t4 ^0 ~$ E7 ]
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 d! t. F$ F8 Q% w
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.. X u: s& U U/ S, k2 K7 p( n8 c8 L
5 \# J% l" e, n$ ^+ b# ^( r' j6 UZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: |; K2 X7 O' G4 g9 u0 q) @
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 E4 L c7 Y! D+ Z1 ]
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 ^% Y$ T! M* w& y# D* M: Z' p
forst plas.
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- c( R2 a/ K: C9 ^7 fIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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