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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will+ A+ {/ a0 O% @' A
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was( P$ Z: j# n V$ W
the other possibility.7 {6 J% M9 p! w/ v! c. I! P
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
' T _! L. Q' ^1 B0 P0 fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in7 N6 x2 ?4 z; \( g1 @2 Q0 A& [
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".: W5 Y. [( T9 t: x3 R% e- `; x- W
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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; p8 N N( x5 P& J, AThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up K6 _) w/ y+ Y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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$ T, V/ K' k' z n$ _There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the* ~. }5 F; d b! _; y
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
G7 g- C/ A8 j& E3 efotograf 20% shorter.
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5 k% ]# v) t; t# E1 B I; w, gIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
% n: F- Q0 u& S4 J: x$ W& A5 M( {reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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: N! l. @8 l" [. U& rGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always4 f2 t. ]3 \6 q- p M) k
ben a deterent to akurate speling.4 I [. q" \# {9 v
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is1 e$ f; [0 p( q' _
disgrasful and it should go away.
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) Z0 L) o& h4 s/ q/ z5 TBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with. {$ U* j9 W9 d3 E* K6 V0 r2 V: e- ^
"z" and "w" with "v".5 H/ Z' w/ R0 P- V
0 j) V1 g: i$ q. F- NDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
" v) e4 L6 D4 Yafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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1 x% P, T/ z& w! ~2 _% aZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
( f9 x1 m7 X- t7 d/ Xunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.; ~' ]: z4 D; G- |; V/ ?
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 U, B9 q8 ^ F: r, j
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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