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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will5 n7 E" M: d& Z% R/ J
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ g I8 z- B: Q- n/ ?5 v H
the other possibility.
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) r' {, _" g0 } u* q; JAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English6 b9 \8 X' `) j# z3 S# s8 U
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
# f/ v! i: \; R: `1 Lplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".& ?) A* |7 U; M8 C5 S" ^; `
% w$ w3 B, x9 v* EIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
$ k; Y' S. ?: I- Y: P, @the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
% h% y: Q' z# v. r& X" Akonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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6 ^; [7 `4 ~2 @5 eThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the1 B" X4 o$ R% ]- ^+ N( C
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like1 B" j' ?* z9 s) ^6 A
fotograf 20% shorter.
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- Q, @. b! t1 J8 T! `In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
) y- J2 U9 O4 j$ Z" breach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
3 f; X# x/ c4 p. hben a deterent to akurate speling.2 t* n6 Q) y$ W/ V7 J
6 |1 K& T5 P) p1 C! c9 I6 zAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
9 {) N- u6 v/ e( kdisgrasful and it should go away.
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! \0 V" K/ @% [5 RBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 x$ [" j$ g' A* c/ {
"z" and "w" with "v".
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' `+ B: K9 J4 v: tDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
- Z8 ?0 z0 h w7 F' o) v+ ]after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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# _/ v) y7 ]$ c rZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu% i5 N- u) U3 I9 S4 q1 j9 j
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% C8 k7 N. x4 p3 E4 D
Und 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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