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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
& ^8 p. J/ ^4 D7 ], h O8 x+ gbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was+ H( v: E+ C1 t4 d4 O
the other possibility.
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9 t( Q( W/ Q7 `' OAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
9 y" s7 q0 q8 r- Q- V/ r/ ~' U# P( r0 Zspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* y5 i7 Q* H* Fplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
9 N- k2 s& C' R: L0 y: P+ Jthe sivil servants jump with joy.7 ?7 k" Y1 E6 f* {8 G, r
; L1 k' u" Q3 T, P; jThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; C j( d) G. e- h) t4 o
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ ?, `; N g% }6 ^9 ~8 A
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
% V6 G a. ]5 R& F+ C3 \troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like5 [" |. K( `; O+ f
fotograf 20% shorter.
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2 f: M# y# E: C+ X/ W- K* D* WIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to$ }3 z% ]- u$ P8 _
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.1 O; s' E5 P1 E! O% P0 x6 x/ I; J6 e- Y
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
8 H! |! `* q2 X1 Pben a deterent to akurate speling.( f! M1 x1 H2 y; C# w& r
" ]4 b3 m2 r( f9 y. k5 G* gAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
}7 L0 E/ \5 B6 b4 Sdisgrasful and it should go away.
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# V* ~5 H; x& A2 S: l! _% [& o) mBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with0 L y! i3 E h
"z" and "w" with "v".7 J7 {$ s& t# p2 |4 \6 O
3 k& s- i( \7 h$ K+ `During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, i3 p |- y' @/ H5 L8 Qafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.+ }6 {2 s% n0 ^- z$ L6 y
" B _6 R4 `: |1 L! j4 J2 ?Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
% `6 E! s4 t3 P- V: tunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.) U+ g* G- V) W7 a
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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( J5 l+ o3 a. k. N- M2 d& h4 SIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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