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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
2 w2 u6 o% B% G# zbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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' T4 M i/ k5 |4 r% m' [As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English1 o9 u: P% p9 J* E1 j* D4 n
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
5 u. ~3 n! _. y) R! Mplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make, e( B% b- J) K5 _2 o" V) J4 r/ V& ~
the sivil servants jump with joy.$ u6 X K7 ^! I M- N( D, ]
- ^- B$ N, `- h. S6 U2 [The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ W, B8 a. U: ~) K& G
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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# r" \/ F( `' b4 ] \+ qThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the" `1 y' |. Y$ Q
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like. ]( [$ X1 O7 i, s1 [$ n3 K
fotograf 20% shorter.
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# o/ c$ u1 g& H' W, E% @In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. m' W& |. w" V8 c+ \
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.( U ?" o( p+ z: J# Y7 f) n
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always$ X1 H4 [% ?. B5 e
ben a deterent to akurate speling.6 T1 R7 ]# r; g: u% i9 T4 ^
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
$ G8 D: a. N$ z. H6 Fdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with2 i2 d) F5 J3 g
"z" and "w" with "v".; \! U, E) s3 G0 ?8 ?+ z3 J
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
! w: D( g6 G/ U+ m" \; Z2 Bafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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- K1 t$ E6 w5 O1 {" j0 Z2 O& }Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu0 l& d9 V9 e+ Q
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.. J% b3 ]- M) @; S' }# t) x+ C$ s
Und 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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