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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
8 Y6 `# y5 ? _$ w3 ^! s' ibe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
( C o* y, d2 W+ P: qthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
+ H0 Y# e6 L. [1 Rspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
- r, b; b G2 J- ]. Nplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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2 X& T0 B8 }8 S% z/ C# G( pIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make: @" t) f$ X. ], f" U
the sivil servants jump with joy. v1 A/ ?2 T' ?: [: c- p
, A6 V. Z, p; h5 R. a9 ] d0 M4 PThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up O! G0 u9 m: Y- e# R
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter." v5 c# M) @/ U# J1 ]/ t; h
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) [7 P- W) z( u; d5 }" Q: K3 KThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# x, t' u' m- }
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
? s" Q+ B5 c' M8 u; Z+ |fotograf 20% shorter.3 F. E/ C" k5 t+ [
( ?+ Y$ d( [1 C' E7 J; D7 a5 PIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' K5 G# o7 h1 ~9 P- h. greach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always+ l0 `4 {- [7 `; S
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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3 O, z4 A* f( H) Q8 kAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is: V4 `+ t( s8 {; u% q
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with3 [9 ^; v) H, U+ K! S% f$ Z# c
"z" and "w" with "v".
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) @+ K9 I6 T' L% }6 l$ }1 ?During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and, A- `/ D4 d8 P
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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; o f3 `) K1 A: ~ V9 k' wZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu! v3 Y. Q/ J4 c/ G
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.0 K9 _. Q1 T0 N; i5 D
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze) w7 n0 R$ I2 p; c$ ~/ K/ ]$ u& m
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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