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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as ‘Euro-English’.

In the first year, ’s’ will replace the soft ‘c’. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard ‘c’ will be dropped in favour of ‘k’. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome ‘ph’ will be replaced with ‘f’. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kanbe expekted to reach the stage where! more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent ‘e’ in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing ‘th’ with ‘z’ and ‘w’ with ‘v’.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary ‘o’ kan be dropd from vordskontaining ‘ou’ and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl

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Quiz on Europe in Turkey

Quiz on Europe in Turkey
There has been a recent project with the title “Quiz on Europe in Turkish high schools”.
Quiz on Europe in Turkish high schools
The 2008 edition of the quiz on Europe, recently launched in Turkey, is going to be a success. The quiz involved more than 400 high schools.

The 2008 edition of the quiz on Europe, recently launched in Turkey, is going to be a success.

The quiz involved more than 400 high schools in Beyoglu (26), Umraniye (25), Pendik (23), Bahcelievler (23) and Kadikoy (22).

The students’ competition, which will last for two months, has the purpose to stimulate study and research on the issues which concern the European Union.

The finals will be held in Ankara in May.

“After the success of the 2007 edition, we have extended the contest to 15 cities, reaching also Van, with the support of the Education Ministry and the Info Network of the EU”, the director of the European information centre Aybige Tanriover said.

The schools of Istanbul started the preparation stage of the quiz at the beginning of March.

The European quiz is organised by the Education Ministry, delegation of the EU in Turkey, and the European information centres spread throughout the country including Adana, Antalya, Bursa, Denizli, Diyarbakir, Edirne, Gaziantep, Izmir, Kayseri, Mersin, Samsun and Van.

The winning class will go on a trip to Brussels and Berlin in June 2008.

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