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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
. A, r( z0 ]; v+ j) cbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
, I. X5 q9 V J6 I8 _# w$ r; f5 Qthe other possibility.4 m! Y* ^" |/ W9 f7 [% ?
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English& m- h1 d+ S; k" b+ y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
; k. ^" X; W, @* Wplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! n7 }1 t% _! T
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
/ i- ]+ S# V1 ]7 ukonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
# E/ ^1 T0 ?% f- n O( S8 ~: ?troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like) X' v7 L. b) Y
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
! p( R @4 U" O9 h% Nreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always6 I4 v2 o' v( u& A5 g
ben a deterent to akurate speling.5 a8 X8 R3 i0 G3 ?
: h# @! S4 f3 a1 ~, G6 i2 IAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
2 _! F2 N, X4 Zdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with& Y+ u# }8 ]4 o- i* C2 ?
"z" and "w" with "v".' y, }" |0 }; f) g! S
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and0 G+ h* h+ t4 v
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 D/ b) o/ G! L# w
# f) W- T' a( z$ K$ g4 ` x1 L+ jZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu) i# X# g0 @8 r! F6 f
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
2 Y7 x2 x0 Q' T5 [' l( YUnd 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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