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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will& Z0 m7 g$ X9 Z7 k M
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ m( k/ {9 Y7 w6 K: K2 R
the other possibility.8 |# T* g+ s* R$ ~' X9 F
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
6 e) Y4 G! F+ T% U( t+ F: {spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
5 X3 q6 _1 o7 S; Q2 Tplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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$ U: U1 Q7 r1 ~3 A W s$ rIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! N& J. {5 i; U4 e
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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. }9 G, u7 U% _The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% b0 n0 Z/ u! j9 p! W
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the" G# ]* ?+ s+ t" [6 E& Z
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like( R# K' o; f' J4 O6 a
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to1 ~. ^, o4 j/ Z( S# N5 ~
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.% K* }. e+ o. O: N3 V
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
# Y6 N% t2 O, i' s% f5 sben a deterent to akurate speling.* ~: {8 I3 O, \
. h" \) M( i+ p# p/ n2 p6 LAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is8 L* ~# L+ l, L6 y" [1 r6 K* ]
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) B, q$ ^- y' T- D8 d3 Z+ }4 U
"z" and "w" with "v".
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9 X f, f# _$ w) x. x& LDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
# Y% A# J- P1 {3 j# B: ]after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.# p' l$ g; |9 C- e: b2 R& W
t! i# T. {; L, }" sZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& A+ k* L! A( |) \3 [1 d) Junderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.9 i l5 e- a' [% t' r; {3 A7 O
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze/ {9 c9 ^# I6 N5 v1 ^
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5 ^& Y- c! D! p. k1 ~5 T- D& y5 l8 o& cIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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