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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' N. u3 l9 r0 @' l& ^/ x3 s8 ^
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was0 S$ Q0 g! S6 n& S/ m+ V9 T3 n
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English6 n% k' o! {! D: J# v3 ^( l6 F
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in) J2 G: r- V/ A. w
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".0 V, a" A# z: [% m ^ r
# f: H8 e) U! `! G. `In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make9 X H$ n, G" z2 T& ~& U
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ c9 y2 z) \- g/ ]
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.! G' S3 S7 }4 Q6 b% p1 o* X4 S( o
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( \9 Q. V! |, {2 i- eThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: Y& j3 [% R1 d# h9 ~6 I7 V4 Q; Jtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; |5 D8 k: e# r9 W& R1 F
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to: u) U0 L0 Z3 Z# T) a, S
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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& w. }: p9 }$ S8 l h0 NGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 J- \& C$ R L- }3 i# C, p
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is4 s* D7 o( `, w. B
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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' S2 w1 N' [& sDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and9 t" I, V- ~5 L! f7 Z: ?' T# h
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. z) H, w! }! `
& H) K! W/ H4 \2 D3 g. @% zZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu, s% |: ~& \7 s7 u7 \8 }
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.5 y# D% t* ]' x+ w
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze1 c/ ^% u1 B. Q5 y$ S* j/ @: D
forst plas.
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7 L3 a2 c2 z: A# D7 m [* sIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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