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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will. O9 v/ o- S4 C9 V+ A4 V
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was2 U2 b6 d5 Q1 {: y2 d
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' g9 d) a7 G5 N* ~, K" jAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
) Y. R! `5 J1 ^; h3 jspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
3 L1 i4 }) f2 c7 d+ z2 g8 Splan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".8 y/ G7 ]3 |6 i7 f& H/ V
, V9 b. a" Y# S0 y: Y `6 fIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make& S( m* [$ V% u+ w& q
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
! C8 k2 {1 J. {0 Z1 @7 Wkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.' F, T% j, `+ a7 T
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|$ R9 p. l3 O5 H: XThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the9 B; l! d, _: k% I
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
. G$ T+ d2 w% O% }* {1 N4 N4 Vfotograf 20% shorter.2 I0 c- S) a5 T- L
9 r" ^8 @! u; x0 O+ YIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
, t, n( _6 }. Q9 E vreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- {# f7 h; y: L! U6 g3 `2 ^- T3 P: Q _
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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7 s- ^7 u {2 h0 d; tAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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' Z3 x2 V/ N4 L7 e$ | E6 fBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with$ \' j! X; R, G5 z+ ?% q
"z" and "w" with "v".$ ~: c, D* \/ n: |& z( F, ?
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and- ~3 A+ R/ K$ I' h
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.0 h$ ]# I# ^+ b$ [2 K
V4 q5 {! ]( GZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
0 t& g' @: |+ [1 B# _2 Hunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
. t0 c0 ~, z3 O) F. f3 j( wUnd 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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