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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, B& z/ }; y( e, Xbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ D3 V$ Q; L( a! S) {
the other possibility.
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! i& ^7 x$ @! t( {As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English3 D' @6 I" T, m1 z" a* z, q9 B
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" ~+ K/ U0 U5 t4 _
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".; N: R4 f, ]* ^4 U$ p0 h+ K
2 Q7 V" U5 |+ _" l! s/ W5 Z0 m$ c6 u$ OIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make# E9 ?5 ?( E4 u0 m* ^$ j
the sivil servants jump with joy.# h3 ~: N# _' ~
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
* H* G% ?2 H7 u: ^( D% t4 kkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the1 e l% e8 V1 `
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like4 ]2 Q9 h6 N$ N7 K" U) e; R7 B
fotograf 20% shorter.
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$ R) E4 {& Z& BIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ V" i$ [# `1 ^0 freach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.( T, \$ U8 @9 p) n
' D0 m% l+ V' q- U4 YGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
5 \4 c6 `* \; r* {ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is7 l$ P i% @2 G! b( a7 w1 Z
disgrasful and it should go away.' q5 @4 X- k. n* P# e3 v
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with) ?! D/ c8 i4 `7 n
"z" and "w" with "v".- W# u7 ?" {* ]" n
( |. Z! @/ C) W/ T' HDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and6 T; H$ i/ b# A) d: {
after 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) X7 j @, k' B8 F
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
, v& C3 F5 f, rUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze3 C9 w' k- N l1 n! [! A
forst plas.
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2 _- F6 i4 ]% ~+ C) }1 f9 k6 n2 @If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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