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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will a- f( B+ ]4 Q6 B- ~" p
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
7 Y2 s) g6 @* x" ithe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. i) B$ Z; ^" H8 D
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in# p/ D; t7 P9 r9 G5 s1 _; i; P. I7 ^
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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3 J: m1 ^6 o$ i, |In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
2 v( t w/ t2 j' W- v" f: O7 Kthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up# L7 s/ S& c" [3 j+ T! D% i' D$ Z9 z
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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) h; B, r0 g* D. r n# uThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: J+ q2 d! T/ N. H
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; z7 q8 L5 h6 ^
fotograf 20% shorter.4 k# R" O7 }' n
9 K9 M, j" ~/ `& R7 X' AIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to" M' M7 b: [. q3 |
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.7 b$ Y, c" O c! a. p$ t
" k9 }* [6 o- wGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
# ~, Y" f4 q4 v) Z7 rben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is8 F; I1 X) T" ]" v
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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3 b3 A( g' ~, P8 Q, Y5 S2 O+ xDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
8 c( u1 D- \% z) D: c% _; uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
e9 M. ]) n1 b, Wunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
) I i' k" j! i9 h4 A% i9 pUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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1 J2 T$ L. a3 A+ L, i! \' _If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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