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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 x. G, A x: c: P
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was9 b5 v* P" p& A
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C6 e5 h4 D" e" T* v+ Z! _( wAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English+ `" Z2 B3 b( }7 H" B1 M, K
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
; p. F/ F; d" }: Yplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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: q$ ^0 ^/ v1 R3 TIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 c i: G3 c5 M7 y. P/ X0 w
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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- b- W2 J# S: Z1 WThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up& ^1 q, H6 g0 m5 t$ `- \
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the" P$ H, Y6 ^, r$ G$ G! J5 O
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
& }4 d% D/ c; D% f5 Lreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.; f% g/ P/ t8 D+ K- |
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always5 m" y8 M& k; W* A0 {* @' `
ben a deterent to akurate speling., M5 \* p# g8 \, D! u0 @
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is: s' N3 s2 [7 |5 [ S% {
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& _3 b) S6 V% @ a
"z" and "w" with "v".! M/ m. W- w$ K. W) U3 r. G# ?
$ e2 q' f( t+ e4 jDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and$ G! A% U9 Z7 @7 c( m' F8 G
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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S# `; v$ h& v/ z2 @8 iZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
8 S0 U9 t m9 a9 F" i+ w# uunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- N9 F2 ~: h; Z
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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