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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- N; d$ A \8 X% O6 v" S/ V+ v
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was% V0 q7 b h9 e8 }. e
the other possibility.
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9 W; I6 ~5 | d _1 F( e( nAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English! k& o5 i* O* ^: `9 L& @1 ]& m' l
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% g; s, U" t% N8 g8 i
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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* z* \6 t) y( qIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make, R: N6 |' c T% S+ F9 ?
the sivil servants jump with joy.: l! V8 X: W" ?1 Y+ I8 _
" I9 f# N( C; P, \% yThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up0 c- d, R% N5 W0 j! Q
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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" c0 ^, Z$ F9 l' ]( \' N9 RThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the; Z; ~' P# W% x- V* h# x% V
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 V' R/ b% l3 V& y5 k( M* l& cfotograf 20% shorter./ {! I% F# w S6 q$ {
1 d" ~ T* L1 y. j5 O1 H8 sIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to8 X6 ]1 y0 q& D2 {) m
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.4 B/ V$ h5 v3 L6 k
' e* V6 s+ @. J. x& GGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
* ^* Q3 J u2 M% f o1 w/ b- E# B- Eben a deterent to akurate speling.
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, y) y' [! ^ kAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
* x8 s2 y7 \& V! b( g/ ^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
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and' Y/ n6 q. Q! a7 v( k& H k; H
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
( |4 e. Q/ v( P/ `9 V' Gunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 V5 ~ S1 s. p4 q2 P$ j3 M @Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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) x5 t8 H( o. T8 k2 |$ yIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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