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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- X, |; @, q% U; k% d
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
) G$ D6 `; j2 Z$ x m, A ythe other possibility.
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% x# E# m6 a4 ?* G0 FAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
# V4 h" M+ m! _3 Cspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
3 m7 z: W8 X, Cplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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/ E. f: L2 k) FIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
6 Z& t5 p A5 m. r, x0 wthe sivil servants jump with joy.6 J# A$ e1 O% e, Q
" p+ _9 A j( ^8 }1 ^The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; l* B2 \0 B1 _
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
2 w. c" r2 H7 dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
7 \- M9 }' X @7 r; D4 V. Dfotograf 20% shorter.
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: u! Z4 {- A; C4 a6 ?In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
8 W& F* Y* }; _6 \5 ^/ a5 |& oreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.4 \+ B0 Z. F3 n' n& J9 L# S
* X) Y! w4 u. F) H- sGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always1 r/ ^* Y! K/ G
ben a deterent to akurate speling.# I# }7 s& @* J9 ?( c
- H/ [9 Z' n( {/ O9 h; X- XAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 D0 b: J( v' I) x+ ?1 H* j
disgrasful and it should go away." Q" @# C- Z( r1 T* k, [
9 ` V' I% \8 ?) j6 EBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
( c, c2 s4 d5 o"z" and "w" with "v"./ l- E' k$ X5 r8 T X; t- s/ g- c
1 t) @ h5 w* ?During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ R; n" f) c5 I3 `, Z+ rafter 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
+ z! d2 D: o @ q4 ~understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.) S" x& A ]& d7 J( ^& A
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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