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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ b" s3 ]. h7 q5 f7 }
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 w" U; k: ~- g
the other possibility.- F- R- a& d$ a9 p5 g
% |" D0 s2 l8 GAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
0 ~' C; ]" e' gspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in+ a) I8 Q' S9 U1 w& ^3 X7 i. M
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".1 G# u }- S0 f0 k9 O
! U) q" `& }2 Y5 W0 ` i* SIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
5 Z$ q4 M! e& o% `% r' hthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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4 {/ E0 n* h3 ? O! P- |+ L5 mThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up r$ B w. i1 l* n2 V
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* N; b2 _, P% P6 q% A5 D" h. H6 S
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2 ?+ g' E0 @* y4 T5 X. yThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 O1 E, y+ S. R* _7 k
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like: H; c* r' H$ J; V
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
- e5 Q. Y3 z- W% L- x, H6 {reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
. ?+ E! y* D, d+ \ben a deterent to akurate speling.! a4 y/ N' k: q' x$ L( t% l
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
9 `; m0 g6 a2 `) W: N, z) z( G2 A) gdisgrasful and it should go away.
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. f. ^1 ~/ E9 j5 vBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( S# e- Q, q- s
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 G" V% B( V; P/ s! @9 Q2 o' safter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.. C9 y' o7 V4 r, r& X4 [) o
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu+ I: j+ z9 r* @" {; m
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
! N* r, ^9 M$ Z( y8 o7 @' Y# S4 GUnd 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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