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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will7 |% b& o1 J& O# g4 H1 g
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was3 D- n4 Q% Q( U% k8 m8 @% L( m7 F
the other possibility.+ W) u/ n! R$ `. i
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
$ g& `8 {6 g/ q5 \1 y- `spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in' v' C4 d0 E- F- G @
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
* B. p$ @; B3 F a6 xthe sivil servants jump with joy.6 P# h" q- e% {4 m5 J2 g
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up& h2 W; k! `% S) z2 S" U
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: S4 j9 h# A" @1 j: w
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/ G" x2 p- X0 K
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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5 e+ l6 L+ L/ t/ X8 p5 LGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
2 t8 a1 G& R: E% Tben a deterent to akurate speling.* p, y5 T7 ?% a; T6 V8 _
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
+ [( s- }1 A) z9 L" y) mdisgrasful and it should go away.. j) K- U& e0 N; @, ~( `$ `
. ~9 }5 Y' K- U' V+ FBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
" i( P/ {: v; Y5 C2 Safter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., o' ~5 `( [( }9 G. P y* o
9 O% C. l" o' e9 j6 S0 ]Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu$ N# k' b' G5 g7 }! a
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
. {6 i+ k; Q& q8 P+ eUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze# H, ?2 k6 M" n) y1 p
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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