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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will+ h7 W( e# Q+ K5 A2 j) B
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was/ x4 g( j. D! ~# A
the other possibility.& ?, {/ W% D/ Q ^, r0 ^) u6 e1 S
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English" H2 M* Z8 O0 v0 }8 q4 h2 n
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
; G1 {/ R8 Z% b( ~) |6 B5 M! xplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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$ p$ i; d9 l0 U6 j- Z& EIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make$ W$ k4 p+ C+ C7 `0 S
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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$ j* E# p9 m; V9 i: X ]$ L: {The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up' P, W+ Q% c$ k+ U t8 _
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the6 R' r0 x a2 }
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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2 {% L. g, T9 k4 YIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
6 D6 D1 d% s4 n3 H: Xreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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! K3 a Q& ^+ zGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% d, y6 h* Q9 r9 E# r. U/ g
ben a deterent to akurate speling.$ U- g- T8 b$ i. ]8 `% ?
0 w. p" Z7 g& q+ }Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
# L) `6 e0 R3 a) W+ B4 `2 ?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; D3 w* ~5 i- X& c8 I
"z" and "w" with "v"./ j+ ^) k2 e# [( ^" M
6 [! [/ O0 o* x7 ]During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 P: X5 @& Z7 w( {# B( Xafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.% o+ h6 y& f/ B: ^) `1 F Q
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
% R4 s1 j5 C# T) Q3 Wunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
# P9 V: @/ R- C+ |4 R3 xUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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! }8 x K- h; PIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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