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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
4 q2 |) M1 K+ z- jbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was% Q+ P. {, I5 I9 m& @7 Z
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% r! W i& O8 R5 B+ GAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 `/ d* H# m3 Q- x2 W- Nspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
9 W: H# X9 C# `6 @& m7 F2 e9 k) N2 lplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ I! ]: N' S7 f5 ?- _: v
) v% c R" y5 N9 [In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
" e+ C1 D K! U9 W& @0 pthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up2 z' i0 n5 P- X
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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' y) e, e2 \+ [( m/ GThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the% S0 y& M6 a$ G6 ~/ \) l5 c% P
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like) i. t, \% S+ p3 N/ i5 X5 Y
fotograf 20% shorter.6 e7 p( w: s( W2 J, w' z
! ]% {8 M- g( b# X+ q% qIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
5 R$ b# u9 T, |& `* v$ V0 {reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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A+ s" | F5 C; V0 c1 S+ I6 XGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
+ W9 K! r" R! A$ n2 [) yben a deterent to akurate speling.2 C# k# b8 i* x |; R( `
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
7 N0 ~6 D8 a5 U# ]disgrasful and it should go away.
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2 a( L. I$ d7 V. [% ]By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with, Q, ?, _9 P5 l. U
"z" and "w" with "v".
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1 H9 C1 b/ {. F% QDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and1 O- ^* N# s ~; S( U' e! o
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
/ j/ o# U" ?0 _understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.& e* ~( p: t. l; O
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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7 z: z. S# X1 ]3 B$ CIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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