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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will* v3 i; V9 _4 u
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
, m" |2 R- Y3 Hthe other possibility.
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9 ]: e6 d* {2 S% S/ K* ZAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
; s5 c9 O6 E' V: l: Pspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
! B1 F6 B0 K, e) b4 S- Z' F% }. J8 Y6 Qplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".+ t9 \- `, U2 G7 v0 R
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
7 R6 s3 [% Y) x. O/ W$ xthe sivil servants jump with joy.( T+ x0 O- T) t r8 B
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
8 H- R8 z4 u3 A9 i. n& @6 g3 Kkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.' I a: M( x2 b; e; q" b2 I4 c. d
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, ^8 G5 \ p% J1 o; t$ htroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like4 L2 J3 n: w( N5 H' Z/ t8 H
fotograf 20% shorter.
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! o! X2 Z4 l5 W9 z, w* G3 sIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# m3 \' F. ]$ m7 u
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- |( ?! y# Q% V* \( p# h8 z7 p+ j
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
$ ~& B1 A& A# W+ H+ Hben a deterent to akurate speling.& k. z, ]1 }4 D% y
- E( Z4 R0 a0 c6 B2 x1 cAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
9 l( D8 V) d+ R' I# X; Gdisgrasful and it should go away.
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. ~9 N) @" j+ J" T8 I# FBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! o( h! N% `/ u4 }3 y% m
"z" and "w" with "v"., [. I( ~8 `, a) B6 W/ M* B
?3 c. T7 N( Q. zDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and6 x4 q$ C7 J& `$ f f! {* P& K0 F
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl./ \4 ~8 M# h" @4 ?. d3 G' s0 V
' |, P* n1 W* IZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu4 e/ H3 q A4 I+ e% T) s" n+ x
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.6 ?4 J' O" R( W& p0 L
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze1 S5 L* n, V( X* a1 R0 m
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2 h5 O: L1 h% ~. b+ wIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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