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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
2 p5 G6 M& m. e ~% hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 o7 ~" C* o$ B' U
the other possibility.
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7 t& j8 s+ h7 Y" L" u! nAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. }' J# s, d8 d y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- o6 G9 _/ l, T, N. P
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
4 v( O7 q4 O0 ~6 d4 }the sivil servants jump with joy.1 ?+ E2 V9 ^! f! F$ f* a
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: X# p2 P2 e- C% S
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.. C3 v- d/ O- M4 |* f9 c' U$ V9 ^6 Q
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8 ?& _+ |' O' E1 R3 W3 SThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
9 w3 I6 T* s0 Ptroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like' _3 E8 t9 o0 m: A) `
fotograf 20% shorter.
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% z2 j [ ]- \1 G% B: G5 Y# F4 Z) YIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to* t1 i8 j' M. v+ ?& o. r
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.+ E) U- m" t. i, {, {+ h/ p
) p# h7 D) ^/ J1 LGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
6 U! x, O% s. G" G0 _ben a deterent to akurate speling.: Q7 f6 w e! m
" `0 h. _+ x& C/ \5 @/ ~! {Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is9 L6 t. [$ K3 ]/ N' L1 O _
disgrasful and it should go away.
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3 }& Q4 O, O) Y9 G+ P* o# b4 W% WBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% s ?1 E1 G! i5 K
"z" and "w" with "v"., H% |! R& A- A1 S
* w/ [# F- n4 ^8 O1 j1 \" bDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. G- N3 {. L& y/ U9 `$ jafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.: H: n. m3 u% [$ X7 O: c
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu3 o- [, J2 p+ s4 ?9 _# d
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
2 E/ `4 B, `# _7 B" AUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze3 e1 m7 D& q* [0 \0 ^+ S
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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