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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will) u) Q: E5 e! S M" X* C
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was* i1 W" J! q8 P, H; l& o
the other possibility. P0 I% I0 K& Z1 Z4 E/ }
& w! ]) |/ a( w# M8 J# S& NAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 a( Z( ]- b8 p E ]! W8 y( V; W7 C' Fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
9 b: [' L+ s* vplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 a" s; f9 J4 \
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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+ `# u& U6 \* [: E: P3 d1 }The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up0 k) Q. j) L! B* [4 C
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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2 M" v" Z, Z, m" `' T- W! gThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, h" V+ T- w& D( t* _9 `
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
( i2 Q5 n) x2 h5 J/ Hfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
, H& z3 g) D# s& Sreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.1 t: ^1 R9 u, O. a( `4 V Q6 U% d
4 s& P8 y: e! x% C- C) Y* @, G; s2 xGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! _" u+ U3 |& h' D2 \
ben a deterent to akurate speling.7 `; d5 q7 f& Y4 N3 f
0 {$ D& l% O+ q% Z& zAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
4 S0 r0 x# \3 @" z$ i& F \4 P: Ddisgrasful and it should go away., k, N2 {; v$ ~' s. o* j% t
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with z) a. ~2 ~( h- i0 j, n
"z" and "w" with "v".
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$ f) `# @) N0 H0 DDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: z- J6 l/ I# ?1 r! v
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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; j, `, m5 |0 ~Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu9 A/ k+ \2 \: f" l( o* q
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
9 p1 H# C( h' qUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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% z6 k1 |1 D a# x; cIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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