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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- `! {* v0 V5 L3 L/ X
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
' c5 e8 _+ I4 Hthe other possibility.
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) r. k, W7 S7 V" T: L; q+ ]As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English* i# W+ ~5 N( i- D! Q) I' o
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in0 f8 P: y2 L2 m3 A
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".! k2 J# o- c! u" G; N# |7 A) `
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
1 A0 I, t* ~& ]5 g% d+ x$ [the sivil servants jump with joy.& [( g0 w' o( H/ m* X! P& H
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% m( e+ G$ Q: h5 }/ D6 B l
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.# C1 m' v4 r- w
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: w% j: i5 g' D% Qtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like8 U$ w2 `/ x" d, L7 A! _9 W% d
fotograf 20% shorter.
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" L: i( ]* |2 a1 `/ KIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
* ~, T& v" _& k! W P) ]+ l0 K creach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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% p* p6 q# Q. \& wAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' Z8 Q0 \' s4 zdisgrasful and it should go away.
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9 V% w9 R) o& i. Y" LBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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, O* Z4 i6 Z+ |& I6 {During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
- V4 S( u( R/ `* y# _" }1 j! Hafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.( H5 ~. f5 ?1 @" _# Q
8 x$ M8 |8 C6 g0 {. `1 O7 kZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu5 V8 Q4 s) |& J
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.: f+ {: f( l9 L6 [7 h) ]0 d
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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