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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, N( c# p1 D3 E. sbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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& H; H1 c: f9 r: sAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English W, S' y3 M$ Z7 J6 X
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
- C1 @8 [# h. `1 Splan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".# d, n9 s+ W% ~' i( O9 `
6 K/ t, T+ j/ S8 J; ]1 hIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make1 H. W! v4 I. R* N& H: P
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ b+ W1 P, s4 i/ J$ @
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* u$ x8 c/ x" l7 g& s# W
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
4 B: S( w; b6 _- Ytroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
$ g6 [) g ]; D6 @; ffotograf 20% shorter.) W9 D8 H/ ~) W, P" M' U$ {
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to E2 D2 N6 j5 {. p, t
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible./ W4 I/ _7 ?5 X5 f4 r
6 G1 s% m6 A. k! K: ^: fGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always. h* P& D0 B/ t j2 h9 F% z( H
ben a deterent to akurate speling.! a" d6 w- t7 ~, H
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is* Q8 a& n8 l) P/ K1 w
disgrasful and it should go away.1 O6 C: O |3 g
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with" v+ P z1 R) u! f2 |
"z" and "w" with "v".
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- x, F' h1 t8 Z6 {7 \( j: ODuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 p L7 v6 R+ q- H, i3 @6 s. ?$ i' \' I: W
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.# Q: V$ B$ a9 K% B8 p
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* p1 t* w8 k1 K% b6 N5 a" I
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
- r6 |% {! j8 B) N& o. {, sUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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/ c; E! }, y. q# ~If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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