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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will6 t" }8 c2 C* u3 ^( l
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
9 p1 N2 v+ s" q$ u) X9 i3 w0 b! Mthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English' J% C1 I f- P# E, j/ t
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in0 v$ V6 j. F" L, h4 h) C
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make) y4 y+ v. M) N7 y% n! L. C
the sivil servants jump with joy.6 m% m* |/ G% \' R( d& n8 c
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up2 S& u: f, J1 x3 D: z
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.4 l5 B: k* ~* ]( Y& |5 z$ n
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, t# m$ ] V, P. o
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 ]' x0 P! R2 |" V+ Xreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.$ ?( ]" S6 [! u/ g
) D- p$ L: K) y9 a9 W5 a, oGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! Q/ E/ j$ p: v& A
ben a deterent to akurate speling.+ `/ a5 j2 [ ?6 c f
, y$ t, B! T' Q+ [Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is% @. G2 J9 W9 u8 J2 ]
disgrasful and it should go away.& s7 i1 @" c: y5 u6 b9 B) R
0 ^5 e9 g+ z6 c' _& hBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! }7 z5 z1 l9 o5 p
"z" and "w" with "v".
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2 S1 j) R( R, IDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 C5 c/ O! G7 V1 z4 rafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.0 b; h! F5 |( e! L: f# r |
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu) J, p1 Y* k4 N
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
- ~6 }4 W* x* U" m2 ~7 E) j" @8 [Und 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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