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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
4 f" _/ P: B" l" {& Z5 [be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
& [6 B) U2 O7 k; X( qthe other possibility.
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8 b1 S' l2 a* F BAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
! ^ `. C7 q" j9 Y! p0 s0 s1 Fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
2 f; ]3 j+ ^+ h1 v! kplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make, o9 I/ k# S( k; ~+ I6 f
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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1 U3 S) o- i% \" u. VThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ _ r( c! n4 M, L# w7 y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the- m2 J2 l- I2 m2 k6 |& ~
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
8 N: g1 ^* w) q: m& K( Y: ~( j- q# w& Ifotograf 20% shorter.0 }- }: h" ~9 T+ d8 _6 @# A, _
Y" C( f4 [4 X5 n( a: GIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
: [$ c) Z; z8 d" Yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
) M2 p7 B, Y) r M2 P8 eben a deterent to akurate speling.
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% l0 j( L7 G F4 V6 oAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
- m1 W, D. {, T1 sdisgrasful and it should go away.
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" n2 X ~2 w/ C( ?. C" JBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 R. @7 p5 h D6 d1 B% S
"z" and "w" with "v".4 [4 {8 w) U( L0 B2 Q
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and+ ], d, r9 g6 ?/ n# O5 T- C( V
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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1 { U8 L- d7 ~8 j: G5 |5 nZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu2 R, q# C2 f# n
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
, b) t1 K, a, ~Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze( t2 b: w4 [7 |0 z" ^1 ]7 P
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