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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! ^6 Z( ^* W K# G6 Z
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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1 ^2 {" l% Y# r5 Y% G+ FAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
p! s5 ^3 s5 ]% p6 R; K! L' V: Bspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in) N! K2 u- @5 {4 _- l% A) S
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
D* J0 P- y8 _- a6 wthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up) [7 A9 b" I5 h6 D% m
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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) R4 _" I( t5 F, R- l0 UThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, c4 G) q, n' e' ltroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 Z# \+ Y0 C1 d) }3 t8 g; ~fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to j7 o* q6 Z* l$ G" t; v
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.' ?7 m1 L' ~9 K
! x$ l6 n. [' [/ lGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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9 u; ~5 \5 ~/ W/ QAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is' R* ?* ?9 _$ H8 { o9 L9 z
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with2 \' [+ d6 A- L" c5 f
"z" and "w" with "v".7 g2 k: G+ z Y
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 w V& `# `7 U R0 M3 z0 z/ I
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
, P$ B/ Q0 ^/ Y3 ]understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ `: [ ^$ I' }- O
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze& t: B4 A$ G* X3 ^
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) T2 a3 ^ A0 W v L) O1 j8 q( SIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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