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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will6 k8 T% S% B0 V1 t" W! k) }
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ r! v8 H& C" }+ l* b# Q% v
the other possibility.
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]" [. Z0 u @: SAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English) C5 U! J6 {4 e. Q
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in* G& D9 L3 U6 u& q
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".& |3 |6 e: j! v& w* R
! p6 ]; i8 y: xIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make( s# |+ a2 A6 N G8 l, }# \
the sivil servants jump with joy., O9 P4 k2 a/ @' O4 w' n$ ]
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up1 q6 S: e+ S% s L& v, E. G
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ r- v J$ A% K, N* h; j
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0 l7 Y0 C+ i* y1 c7 SThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: @! @9 h' Y) i) r+ n X. C* c1 |; Ctroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 Z* @) s- T/ W: M2 M- M% P9 H% ufotograf 20% shorter.
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. \- R) t( {2 E; a8 wIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 |- Z- r3 I4 X" Nreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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# I6 e/ r- O* y" vGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
+ L- m+ F0 `) hben a deterent to akurate speling.! d4 d9 d* w; D: I4 k6 L
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is9 D1 E6 N" ?; i7 w
disgrasful and it should go away.6 O4 g7 B. s( [0 c- D
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and% O9 d4 T9 O+ o. ]$ `+ W7 G' {- O
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; {: f3 W, p, W- I
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* q% W4 a2 ?1 {: t
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; K( E! `$ n% c. y5 `1 h- m4 B% SUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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9 Z5 j+ \4 }8 r6 TIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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