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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- Z& U. f; n6 m) o1 N4 n
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
: Y; T9 X- |$ W" i+ _& \0 d9 m( ethe other possibility.
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9 @) j5 j; k/ h4 L% V9 |4 YAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
# ^) d5 {: n! G, o2 V# Ospelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 s1 y- R/ c' w/ h
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." v' |/ n+ c9 @
/ q& \ @1 }) }, jIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
! e0 h* k' R8 _( W" J" ]the sivil servants jump with joy.; j& w- {5 v$ W# X4 a. s% ~
2 U8 N1 y7 P6 u. m" B/ QThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ l7 T d' M' g
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: D5 c; u# D- g, M; p
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
( Z, n& t; l* Vtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like" p$ r1 Q) f; j
fotograf 20% shorter.. C7 r) L& e# y( {% d
( T6 ?1 a( ^9 xIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to! t0 q7 R! k: v7 o0 K( f
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.& b6 S0 ~, p, N2 G' W* h
$ {! g3 I2 a i- }( z1 eGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always8 x# y7 K, ^6 I# t( @3 Z5 j* F
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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1 V' \5 B8 [- t, e8 vAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
+ L9 Q6 W0 s& v7 ldisgrasful and it should go away.
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2 w4 o) F E+ j1 JBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 X5 b6 q+ p$ A: Y
"z" and "w" with "v".* i& h! w5 b( v( z$ W
( K" K4 g# D5 iDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
+ j) ~1 s3 u. ]+ c- [& H M3 T: ~after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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7 Y+ K y0 r" t0 o- U) VZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
* y- y3 L" z* ?. L" v6 Wunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
. X. _* Y" f5 F# k+ j. LUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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* S4 t3 G" N$ a. LIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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