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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ a l5 C2 M) B `
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was- c$ X0 x! j0 L" @
the other possibility.! |7 ~# {" P: ?& [" d+ _+ q9 u
5 W6 U1 M3 t6 M, u6 [4 O$ XAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
7 u: q4 E$ V Y1 M' x/ Sspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
8 M( F) d1 C8 J ?8 xplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".) H( s9 R: Z6 t% o4 [1 S# [% S
! j. o9 p0 T2 d7 A0 k3 tIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make6 X" _- a7 V# b0 e3 B
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
8 i y& S. O7 I3 tkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 R2 Y& \+ A; v- C) b, B7 A
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( G6 d4 @/ ?2 F3 w/ f$ OThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the \) _. J9 z; B1 r2 `; _- n, Y8 ]
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like( d: x. M- _4 ]# A5 _: B2 j
fotograf 20% shorter.
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2 J I4 |' p3 M# F6 n/ IIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to" R$ [: T3 c( _7 q- {. ]
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.( H# A* n' Y$ n6 w; C& E
; ]# D" A% e) B. XGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always; G: _3 [* v* \% S9 _- M, A
ben a deterent to akurate speling.2 q6 S' k5 f5 r
: S* f& s6 b SAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is5 W, V. d+ Y% K. i+ q
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' f6 O8 J' X! X3 S4 ~
"z" and "w" with "v".! o! |1 \4 C; o* E" }
4 w; B$ P- Y! x, V1 q# `During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. X9 P6 i; a) ^5 [- Eafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl./ n2 Z! b p! |8 B( Z! i' p2 A& F
5 ]0 x+ @& B( d* ~1 B1 B0 |Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu8 ?4 s% M: j# U- J; ?
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
$ a# o, [. A, r# o$ @' f: {: 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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