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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! |" d2 i: _, ^+ w$ T
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
5 P" ?+ a4 C/ f. C r# k& xthe other possibility.
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! ?- N- Q* @2 C8 h$ z+ m8 pAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
& J$ v6 v. d, r8 Espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
' ~( v: m. S: A/ Bplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".& [4 N1 P$ ]+ V' {
4 M( w; R! Q. m' [In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make+ Q" s. q* Y' n- @5 ?, U
the sivil servants jump with joy.) O9 ~: E+ V2 Q- I$ d
2 d% }6 |* C/ k) ^The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up' o/ C& Y0 R7 n5 [7 H, u; S. n
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the' H% ^6 G) G( S; k n
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like' n3 b) j( b' o1 V: y
fotograf 20% shorter.
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1 c& a6 b0 V( y# v ZIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to$ o1 G; ?2 c J8 L* ^+ |
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: \* B- L& a! o
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always$ }( L' n) ` g8 T* c( k2 O! Y5 J- @
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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7 b4 [# x% f' K2 VAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
& f/ A/ h* `7 V+ P5 r* `disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with/ [' H$ x4 C6 w8 P
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 v+ Z* I! ^, Y9 E7 Z$ Q
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; ]8 n/ {8 S* s6 d* A7 D# p
# @. ]9 O1 ]. V, W' `/ Z5 ZZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
$ P. i! ^+ A. I. [( _) M* H5 j. gunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
|8 {0 W; n$ j( f" F, h* y1 k( N2 pUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze- k6 s# l+ k4 W$ E- L4 O3 Y# H4 N
forst plas.
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' y4 q( t% v0 u% x0 L0 OIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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