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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
v; a3 H0 k) s4 C* N0 _be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was8 a- u; m9 `; Q8 w" D
the other possibility.
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' g6 E5 V! }+ b6 [As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
- D* h, V2 b5 R2 |# m( mspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
( p$ l" S4 f$ Y# q" Pplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".+ K$ B7 u2 U P- z* c2 ?
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 M, R |: Q/ g7 w, K" P
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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- O( B- m3 h1 NThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
% \4 ?' v7 w0 x! Dkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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/ ?) V9 A/ [9 |. Q; q0 u- `& QThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the% e5 n0 b# N% u$ }# O! E
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
* E5 c b, w1 P! g* breach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always6 i+ s+ |7 q Q; B) Q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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1 M3 x' Z0 }$ FAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
6 M& v, W; Y( odisgrasful and it should go away.9 S/ E" f" q6 e# ~! {
3 x: n- Z7 i* Y0 a8 LBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with4 o3 W1 J% V- \- F
"z" and "w" with "v".& t' i: [( q( n1 w
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and; z+ P7 x5 B: G
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
h+ J, h! I) o+ e0 punderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ I9 M9 S! J" b0 G2 { RUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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, W4 p. X; z9 s& L6 t& V sIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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