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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- a4 A0 M6 u9 @1 A6 Z
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was- K- V* W3 F& l3 N" w. f2 o
the other possibility.
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% K3 o: M* s- sAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 A5 |/ K* m( Ispelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 n z/ k9 K& V+ R' a
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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5 {. }& J) z. @; M9 TIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make5 ]0 v" |/ h6 J" b+ L0 B
the sivil servants jump with joy.& M+ a5 H3 q* k- G+ n
7 \& G( B3 t( ^* [4 UThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
9 ?# h. ?6 V1 }$ ^; {7 s6 `' u# P* vkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.3 M3 f# I9 r1 J# ~
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 Z% R& E9 \* y6 u! ]8 ctroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
/ j8 T/ s( ]8 q [& t) h' L" ^fotograf 20% shorter.4 g; c2 o( p; y+ G- j/ ^4 @1 w
/ F3 Z& Z: U* ?6 |4 R' }! }/ qIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
1 v8 X& J$ m9 preach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& e1 f( m4 {* u$ s
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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8 k, Z. f3 _0 w0 e- j6 TAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is! p3 U9 \( w# S2 g) U$ i
disgrasful and it should go away.7 f! H& n6 b! ?
0 l6 T! f" H2 wBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with4 K, \' ~! J; g6 j
"z" and "w" with "v".
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6 P0 W1 T: W) B, _% l" J; S: m' `/ GDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
" {, h3 v6 \* a: V- Q/ uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.* |7 v) b: }$ C) M z
6 O* L0 D9 ^0 N3 d# \1 {Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: c. Z' Z. G8 T4 s1 C t
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- A3 v, f2 G8 }& t
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze1 p! K. t1 Q$ D* p
forst plas.
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# N: F- q3 }1 b, D. kIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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