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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will \7 d1 }! N# n* N
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
$ U Y" v/ K4 t+ R. g+ A8 gthe other possibility.
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p7 D ]/ K# k3 DAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
9 L8 L. I3 f6 u0 dspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in# i6 I* g4 T" V( ~( g9 ~
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".; s. _1 p# H, b: |- R9 @3 S' ^; `: H0 X G
9 t1 W Z8 S8 O, U EIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
9 L: W4 O' o* pthe sivil servants jump with joy.( I4 D( a" N+ l4 O1 Z! h
. Q7 d: k- C5 z& l# GThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
" [ d+ X- d2 |: R! D6 ykonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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7 ^6 T0 x+ l# ]. h" d1 n( pThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: h0 l+ m$ D+ z8 wtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
9 g6 y5 X9 m0 C# O4 \% F$ Ffotograf 20% shorter., d$ H, R$ P% d& ^$ o; e/ i7 k- j
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 R% ]: D" b% Z! u$ ureach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.1 p9 h2 S( l4 C: k' }1 |: [6 R
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& n, r: ]% s2 r9 g4 g0 J6 ^* q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is+ u' U0 N) i# f4 _# v
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ N) @/ }8 F- {7 @$ T, x
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and9 R3 s* L2 L/ m. i V
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 r( l3 W* P& c0 _6 w) d
. _8 a7 _% E9 c( a+ IZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
7 r! L7 q. J" Qunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.0 }& M1 Q! c* s) o& o0 G
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze7 d/ `9 A) ]0 X, ]
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" k. h8 f8 H, f- }+ D0 E; hIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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