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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 V1 w/ N+ x( B4 f: Y
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was4 J! N& J' Q/ Z4 \3 A( D; r
the other possibility.
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$ T6 {- h+ |- w" UAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English3 Z1 `$ S( Z2 a( G* |5 ~
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
f4 M9 l$ H! T5 Kplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% A8 b! s5 r1 C* ?
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
7 L9 N1 y, c4 P$ H _the sivil servants jump with joy.: x: I1 n k! a8 h7 s8 s9 I4 `0 K0 ]
$ m* T1 ?2 |# ?8 \The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
( [$ k- Z5 y9 a5 B' h+ mkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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: l9 N; [* [& z) D& vThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
+ H) [' k, x3 r8 m* h6 y2 Wtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
$ E4 J5 u* f: `5 Z' dfotograf 20% shorter. c* x6 q/ N& I! G
6 r; P! Y) P- V/ U$ vIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to7 ]! x, ~# E4 s6 A0 ]% A
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.3 s: C9 y7 l' f" Y3 F, H
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: F7 H( V& i5 V( U6 W
ben a deterent to akurate speling.4 [$ x( `1 c+ v, x
" f" M6 Y! q, V7 ]0 a/ M0 ~1 XAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
9 i B9 R! n1 D8 [/ e7 vdisgrasful 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
) w. H4 V) j5 j3 C- p- q# d* eafter 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 tu2 w6 I- s; G+ k& I F
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ U0 d) N( q8 y$ j2 }5 j
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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# ]/ ~" t6 ^( _5 g. s! h. SIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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