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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will5 W/ z* f6 g F# u! e
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 p2 h3 ?: p6 A* h
the other possibility.
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- c& Z) S& j! }! r+ zAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
. o5 n5 h5 }) k0 _! {spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
1 p2 r% G9 K: b. ~+ ~plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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! }( g1 N8 B; J$ H2 N/ ?In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make, |8 l5 y: U( |! g' Y
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up) T1 C$ a0 l8 _
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.( y/ A* w v/ T. W
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the$ T$ I3 o" Z3 \! q! {; o( ]
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like- ]$ @, E6 Q8 G
fotograf 20% shorter.1 r" A$ ~% i- q1 f4 B0 a
5 m& ~- R1 Q9 w$ AIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
# `. d- y1 B2 E* T( s2 j' i/ Yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.& V8 b/ ~: _3 P/ p7 \& C
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% I) ^, x" E' A" i" x. p4 i* |
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 is
2 C' t% p% P# a6 B( u' Odisgrasful and it should go away.
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3 N/ B+ t& U8 NBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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" a, `, q. ^2 zDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
7 ?" H: H4 Q. |3 k9 n( D& S% Vafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. |& {& i& b! N; s$ k3 X; Q
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
\5 g7 v, R3 ^7 s8 L4 t2 `9 s Nunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 {: y$ c5 P9 ?8 r+ k8 TUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
5 X. s+ d; y; v! d( K4 Sforst plas.: l: Y* L( @& O1 E4 q0 }/ O( ?
9 _5 v i+ h4 T0 s5 a- N# MIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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