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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will: W& ]5 g9 u3 a* n! E, L
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was2 {9 H& _7 E1 R1 S/ m% k$ `
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; p) G8 z) X' G5 a2 uAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
" ]# S6 F0 h, k, l- |4 Qspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
, u0 H' W, ~- r Lplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".' [& Q8 Y5 K+ X- L! P- H
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
$ u( O5 h9 Z1 g. x% ?1 F+ @& z7 N5 Q# dthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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# E# b6 I i3 G: DThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: s' T7 u8 b8 P& @. N2 Z. E
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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" s7 q" ?/ _( B4 n5 K$ D) F' gThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 q" w9 C) F! m1 u. H9 m
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like- I: @% X" C- `$ W: t( K8 z
fotograf 20% shorter.( ]3 E. k/ W* N$ E- t7 w) ~
2 j5 P. Y7 Z( f, h: }! f1 K5 P+ KIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to9 a/ p0 x0 E! g4 L2 M
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
6 g! \# \3 L' @8 C( ^& oben a deterent to akurate speling.
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2 Q# x; w/ {3 l" eAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
: z7 B& X0 m) o6 m9 Idisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. `& s8 e( p' h# o) W1 Xafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.( g' c, n) ~9 i( o' u) ~
/ @2 ?% y& s( m0 o6 l& n! W) C- }3 OZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
' Y5 s. I6 }4 P: [4 A3 Cunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
5 j/ }9 s! p, ~1 O& J& g% eUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
2 c, U* W3 ?2 eforst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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