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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will5 F: r2 ~; L/ v
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
4 } g7 L* a) z# O, Mthe other possibility.* U% z; s" w7 k
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English3 E8 C* |5 c- ^' B2 a1 U
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in* t* h. y9 I+ t! N, U
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".4 Y0 a# ?4 Q5 c
- b* U. `, k2 }- h& n+ j) wIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make4 v& E4 P" G$ V \; X/ Q$ N
the sivil servants jump with joy./ z: v- _6 w# G. B
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: g2 N C t/ N/ N6 U$ _; y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# C6 }% |" R1 o3 {3 ` G) J; C/ 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 to6 M3 ], Q+ L0 P" Y7 b+ [& j
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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) R( t% i$ a: b( [. \3 rGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
( d; j2 M( v9 S/ \' a- Yben a deterent to akurate speling.
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) v: O- O+ c0 T! Q5 y# RAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 J+ b+ P) Y/ Z8 ?
disgrasful and it should go away.8 M! E5 Q2 H& f
6 J1 ~ ?8 Y. \! c3 y* }" ], o: J) ZBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 V3 `! ?* |, A" Y* z- |
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and+ t, U% e+ {: ?* \* H
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., `" g3 b1 B! S' n
* h0 V, f, Y$ Y1 f7 Z6 D3 fZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
, N/ Y3 c+ t, @ Q# }understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
* c8 W0 z% b, PUnd 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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