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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
0 ~# q4 u2 _, ]1 N, T- ~' z0 `be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
; P3 W |( I$ P$ ^5 Gthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
+ M& O. y3 y6 ?0 q: \/ Xspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
( m, p& A1 Y k6 q+ ^( ]plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".: v1 t9 h* H/ ?+ l1 C( q; O
$ x" n6 x- v( f0 A; z/ R, R' gIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make n- T+ g6 ^2 W# x7 }1 B/ f
the sivil servants jump with joy.& j% a0 G. p5 z8 m5 d2 ~" w/ z" c- R
# _2 e% H: a( R. h" wThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
; b$ m2 m! t1 r+ V2 Ekonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.5 {0 Q0 z4 I, x) ]: N
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, p6 \. y/ w# J2 ~+ \; }$ k; \$ zThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
9 L- V. `" z2 x& O; f( q3 ]troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
6 H* o8 y- f& s% {; @0 Y! Ifotograf 20% shorter.+ k1 ]- q, }2 B6 w
" F0 i4 c( A, c0 ]& e0 {& KIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to4 h/ s* D: l% ~. N
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always$ }8 q4 w7 J. c
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 is- `# E. U& n' F; c6 E5 k
disgrasful and it should go away.
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/ `/ f: P0 l' SBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
% d* r! X+ f' f) `"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and) l# s* p0 [6 X
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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: s( Z ~7 l2 W! sZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
4 P; p) x+ u+ J* Aunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 I0 b2 m! d) e: G; p. c: IUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 N$ v5 X- d* k1 p) c
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$ ]6 l9 P. v8 vIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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