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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- z2 h/ q2 _# x* A1 a1 M
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was6 x. t2 F$ E! S. s0 I! ^1 D
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; b3 V+ D9 w1 m* oAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
% U& K9 a9 R& c; Kspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 A, h# a; d6 N& }" J2 E5 I# g3 }
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 j% t7 R# I! _4 C+ Y6 t, A( n
2 c& l3 L) v0 u& `# f+ q! wIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 F: H; ^+ J& D- N+ G: c5 w
the sivil servants jump with joy.* K: b! ^! u0 j0 c3 _$ z
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up& ~. n m' T' l
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: B; L# }' M" U
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4 z# G2 b4 I# PThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the3 q" V( s j) t* Y6 O. ^8 d
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like% z: N3 l1 ^( ~5 P1 j. d, A
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to4 P7 O! v. d( T! i/ @, v8 T
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! q3 z5 D: D) _6 e
ben a deterent to akurate speling.5 |( c0 ~ p1 ~* n( U
6 V/ q8 q( t. {7 Z; YAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is6 F: K: |# T8 }" l
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with3 C* F; K; g+ ^" u( k/ T) P
"z" and "w" with "v".
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6 J' L9 f$ I$ {/ K4 X: dDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
+ N& z& d$ O# Z ?8 ]0 n8 M5 M. xafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.* i, F7 W* M, W2 m
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu4 W& [6 s- ^+ M2 h; x4 H# w
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ r ~9 s! A2 A" f0 T* C
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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