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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 i0 O' R' G' F2 y) S
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was- ~. A3 Z+ a3 Y/ u
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3 x1 f. _ E. E6 u( S) A4 d% h; e5 CAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
- u/ d! l" ]( A7 F& ispelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
5 a7 R8 \& g) k Q- M. f; Eplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make1 m" R' X% z8 l0 S3 k
the sivil servants jump with joy.$ t, b: _4 X; Z4 q( l/ y) L' H
; j5 ~! q7 t; ~& n6 I N2 AThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up# S$ |# x- h% I- I% y2 i9 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
7 ]+ _$ n N8 d( ^. h2 v" G( t: itroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; U8 [$ t" I$ f! Y$ S
fotograf 20% shorter.# ]2 y) r, v4 T/ I% s; ]9 ^
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to" u# ~# b9 D, G5 u8 E2 |0 D/ b4 V
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible., k; r* E) q2 x& z9 v7 J: K
/ a' \7 b6 `+ o0 ~Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
1 e/ e1 i7 o& ^0 Zben a deterent to akurate speling.( q. L) l( T6 R. ?/ G o I& A
: m/ f$ }' J5 d) _- xAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
D2 n& {2 t' |$ r1 E' Vdisgrasful and it should go away.5 I) ~0 N, X. L8 e
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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2 ~0 S. g2 I$ ~$ BDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
7 w) d$ F' s/ X, K: {' mafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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. i! C6 y, S6 B2 lZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
2 F+ {, D* g7 ~understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.3 w/ `/ N( u) W1 J" C" d
Und 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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