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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
) C: _2 j* }% j; tbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
3 ]# _' z& ^- I( ithe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
$ @4 {! d8 T! Yspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
: @6 J8 f: A1 B+ D4 w' Uplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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! o" f7 B7 M' ^, U7 @ Q$ i% ^In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make+ X& | t7 M. u- t& j
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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2 q6 Q; _1 n0 c. X3 TThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up8 E0 p6 W5 w6 `. }5 Q
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 |0 F# k9 i) l# [
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like0 o' e+ z0 a7 Y
fotograf 20% shorter.4 |0 K& a8 b! U: x1 |2 T
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
$ C/ ]$ A# P- [6 t. b$ g7 }1 v: zreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- h" z! E! e1 d1 ]
$ T- U2 F/ f1 }+ hGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
( {0 B: k) e' }! ~) E6 jben a deterent to akurate speling.4 P/ \6 f: W0 ^, i0 e6 O5 u! H
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
5 D7 g. U9 f# sdisgrasful and it should go away.. t I) ]; a' }6 T
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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" e! t3 D$ i" N S |" WDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and7 P7 v5 ~; Z3 z, [8 Y% y* P* V
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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% G7 q2 e0 B, ^2 ]9 `Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
! K% t+ B4 k4 g- P' munderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.0 S) ^ Y' u% O8 m* m
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 C6 o" J) x, a4 e% r P, D
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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