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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 D) i3 D1 f; F! j, F
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was) E" d8 `$ L/ k( a' z
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English8 u4 T) Y* i7 O# s8 R, e! N: v
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in# x' F5 ~2 [. H/ }% ]4 Q2 o. P0 z
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".! w5 ?; [+ p) S9 O | y. Y1 u
0 R4 a& m2 ]/ TIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
' F& _0 F+ u; Y7 pthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up# j& d7 J( G9 ?% e- J' I" O
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. q0 X" R! k2 l& n7 @) ^
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the0 H. Z$ j3 d" U( F
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like6 ^4 b+ d' P- H4 e
fotograf 20% shorter.' w' j3 f8 L2 @9 n: y4 o0 P. |
. X( x, h# _$ }! Y2 eIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
) c8 Q# e4 c6 W" sreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.) G5 W2 I7 V) ?, [
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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4 @* Y% D+ }7 `) D& NAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is0 `, a. \8 l# a* D. |
disgrasful and it should go away.
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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. r2 u: [1 c1 g& \1 C6 H, U& A
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.8 `+ C( F$ S/ R7 S# g8 V3 J
0 x4 e7 P! m2 D0 `Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu+ Y& j7 Q. m- m# k
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
* P7 w E8 k& jUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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$ ^4 ~; Z2 L1 HIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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