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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- B* F# Z: N: ~5 ]4 b/ Q
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" e5 M, I6 M4 V# N( f( b% U
the other possibility.; H' x9 |* r# v% f1 z
7 u* L2 F, ?0 V5 Q! n$ {As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English/ D& ~4 @9 d6 t8 v! J3 X8 N
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ W7 b3 a4 z7 y$ w7 K/ Z
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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/ L$ N) I% Z& B' s4 t: HIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make# S; s; t0 b# y" }( _( w
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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& I% I7 _0 L4 b$ ]7 ]% wThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up8 Y' B& r8 C1 V6 j
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.) G! ?1 J4 R/ S0 p; M! f
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3 X3 R2 `. m; ]) _# U% \. @& q$ RThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the0 H# Q# R5 i. E4 i& R3 E
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like$ X f- t+ h/ C( N) ^ N1 p" A
fotograf 20% shorter.
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9 p% X1 A7 |5 B3 d3 |In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to7 p( P- C) _- C+ z
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
- c+ [) K$ H. N# \6 w2 ?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 r6 {. m7 c U# b$ g6 n
"z" and "w" with "v".
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; H. O! \. |) A" T, k3 @% g' Q9 q. mDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and4 f7 A6 _' A: W- }+ s7 ~
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 tu6 I$ ?" q4 s5 e4 J. y
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ R7 d7 ?) l9 |
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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; S& m- c. V; h3 X* n( lIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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