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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will1 t, Q( q! y/ K J1 L
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was {. Y! e3 q3 ]9 a) I
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
# `+ H6 _- T' Y' I3 `8 C/ ]spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" M; e+ ~5 G4 `3 i# R" L
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".5 V/ q; ^! m! g$ L5 q8 \. R$ }
$ I& U2 e) y5 i vIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
! `9 g0 A9 D/ w' Jthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ p: s3 L3 F; Qkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.! _' X/ M8 _' R) T$ ?8 A
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3 @' X" R9 p% S& L3 O0 N0 GThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, [) W% V* w; S# {0 A7 H! T* Z. Y% mtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to1 x) G: v* [, c* J5 _
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible./ f! A X- A. i
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! h0 D! ^& R! u O' J+ Y3 R
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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" E7 ?* ^' b: lAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is* B# C% e$ H% ?
disgrasful and it should go away.+ R& u2 m1 ?; ^% l
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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 q( [2 D% h; {* H3 x" x/ s
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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# |9 Y* s& Q( N- cZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
4 [2 m ?; o! ?% H) ], |understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
, h; ]$ V0 C* ^2 YUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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