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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ U8 K0 w# C3 }) S0 S6 t- s
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was w: u* q' t9 c7 _- e3 G1 C
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English1 y) o* w; `) ]' _# R) N( M ~) S
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
: M! P) F+ W. h1 |5 W' Gplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 I R! u. y9 `9 b& P. y
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make: Q& B5 E$ ^# E/ u3 I& S# d c8 n
the sivil servants jump with joy." e+ s+ u8 Z% [' k; t4 }
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
- C. H/ }' H, m2 g. |4 W( P; ?* Tkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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( x! d8 n2 F9 z8 E; ~$ t. mThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
# _4 W% B; u, B' a7 N' ]: qtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like, A8 }+ `/ I. O
fotograf 20% shorter.
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( n F1 i$ | `7 u! w* s6 r8 t* I7 W* R, x- @In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
+ u2 v% c. _4 w1 C% s- mreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.& p I; i b- x5 I& f" V
6 O5 k. J# c! d9 z- B# p, x: fGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
2 d: k* t5 l4 Q; j) m8 Wben a deterent to akurate speling.
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. G5 d# r! Q' ~7 HAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
- W/ Y5 [ J4 w0 c e+ q) p h% Ndisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with; E* w' S& a }/ X j
"z" and "w" with "v". W. w6 M2 r( ~7 O
h) O. s5 {1 V9 q* _3 A! sDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and* l4 E9 F4 h8 N. q3 i
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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1 u! {. p: y* J2 M9 a) X4 eZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu1 a5 G* J6 ?: K) t( w) W
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ g6 r4 G" x$ D7 E! s% uUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze; [! A' L% ]6 d5 [
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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