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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ Q: m. p; j! o/ @3 R0 f) ]
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was/ t, M' ?* j: Z8 \% W
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 m P7 n* e3 ?: q' {) a" {' {3 r
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
$ M' O( j% h0 f- Y3 ]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% R% z& h- }, n' E) g" a5 F* ^7 c
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
5 ?/ D- u3 d% A' p' B ykonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ }. Q4 e! Z# Z& d/ k
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u1 ~& ]" ^: Z! U; g) x: [3 fThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
0 ~. m$ V* i- f) A5 A0 ` w0 `1 B! E$ ?troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, t& i( }3 x; L! R$ efotograf 20% shorter.2 _4 K3 s1 [' h; B* y, h
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ R( T$ ?1 a& M! ~+ \9 T! j9 Areach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.9 i8 [7 j" D, T2 P
, Y2 O4 L) L7 ^Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* }6 G9 a" p1 |3 U: t0 Z# L7 A
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
3 L3 c" z0 U9 k" p# \2 z" n" |disgrasful and it should go away.$ ]3 G6 X( N2 N. z! e+ ?8 D" X
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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) _0 g7 Y. o- qDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 f% e8 Y' e- X: @3 [. kafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) H- _2 s8 k& |' S l
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
6 b, p- S% B) M( @: xunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.6 q# O. R2 c" a( f7 M
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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