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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will. g4 y* n' N& O
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
: U" p( G2 W6 O U8 S6 X( Sthe other possibility./ I x' `- N6 m2 a- y" Y' }
4 c l. Q/ j' Q0 OAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English& v5 A" s3 ~+ A/ z! E
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in1 N' O3 N4 Z* }! {! r; @4 \
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 ]' ~9 @, f# Z) L; y u8 c7 H
2 x6 I9 T% [, f: MIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! A- q! i0 v0 ~( I
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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. `9 R; ]$ l2 G7 n: ?# EThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up, V) d8 |# c$ Q* q4 ~1 Y, R
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the( ?/ z! | ^ c* C, y1 y
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 _4 s# _/ M) }! P4 hfotograf 20% shorter.2 Z* V8 I* Y, x5 R+ A0 Z
9 I, G R7 y9 _In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to: v$ k% h, A( c% T
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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' F! V1 V; g j) @4 r- |- M$ H( s5 u$ nGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is; g; f7 h, |& W
disgrasful and it should go away.
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1 `$ U. P5 M! `By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with' P. @) l) `5 M9 x
"z" and "w" with "v".# c: d3 I1 N* u1 ~& d
( c( ?& s7 s5 K! `. w* VDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
- c6 Q5 t9 |0 L0 D kafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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+ }, [4 q# t5 d' J4 N3 U: V# y& SZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu+ V( E) E8 ^) r& {# k0 X5 i& l
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% i2 T( f# p$ U7 D: E$ F* N
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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0 c& H/ B* h6 {/ }# M3 @! y7 f. k# GIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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