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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will; x" a0 f+ S3 @( j2 t* `
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
9 j2 J( d1 G% ?4 W# b( c3 Athe other possibility.
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+ V6 c7 g* o i9 \' d" @As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
; H) |0 ^8 a/ M' `8 t& u: x) a% Kspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in( u+ |, O; L! ` v
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ i2 }# m* q! {6 `6 A* [) C. e& H
' z" H; l4 m' m. Y7 F3 H' I4 ^In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
1 u/ @7 J$ y0 a+ \: L1 Lthe sivil servants jump with joy.* y* [! t3 ~& l
/ r7 N5 E9 Y4 H9 C) FThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
& S D" y. N# Y3 e; ~konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.2 A6 e" O/ ~( O8 ~* L
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the2 Q! C7 P0 z3 n8 K. S" E: i+ `
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like- i/ }! m. k7 F& j& c2 _# _
fotograf 20% shorter.- I5 H' W$ h. j/ x
6 A/ \/ \: e$ X2 ?+ VIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
8 W3 N) V, l& Q; Y$ Kreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.0 I9 n% g6 @5 o$ C: i) ]
% }5 |9 H. A3 H; t& @" P# }9 VGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
% m! F( b: x% w% U8 kben 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
# d6 g. j. o4 V; r% C5 _disgrasful and it should go away.+ j( Z3 r1 n1 q6 g) o. C
) W; s8 D, K KBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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& X& e2 [) D. P* |/ oDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and6 G) O* \: D2 s; i
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) g( j' T4 @5 ^4 ?1 L7 z
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
( \- f6 a4 `) Dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 l3 }) X: p* S& g' M& hUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 J8 I# b) Q5 _( d% U# l" N
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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