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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ V# _6 Y9 I; x I
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was _8 A7 H: R- r% A, R
the other possibility.3 Q6 k% U4 l/ C# d& k
0 \& D7 Y3 d8 s) AAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English* a- Y* S/ d; R2 S
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- A3 @; w! h; U
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".; i6 w9 Y x' W2 r6 P+ ?
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make1 m+ A/ H' T5 t5 g2 _$ ~
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up9 ], g! C: O' W* Y& Q2 |3 Q+ Z
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.3 j# Z8 ]% m& r! M/ r
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the S4 k7 p( Q$ Y7 X0 v6 `7 S/ w
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like. t7 Z0 M3 _- m% N8 d
fotograf 20% shorter.
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/ T, H- \: Q7 q& j8 s; sIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to' P% ]1 W2 [5 [/ R2 U3 e/ H+ E
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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; W; C3 M2 D* T2 u/ t. s7 f wGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" B- J5 C' V) q: \4 I' D( A# X
ben a deterent to akurate speling." \6 e9 b* g% q; h- G* c& w! n9 f4 | y
6 b/ T/ |' u% H& J- M. pAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
$ E8 R6 ]8 a! h, D: @3 F) ydisgrasful and it should go away., ~- P) i" ^$ o9 E! B) O V5 u
9 Z8 l& @2 h8 Z; S' hBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with& U1 Q* J7 B/ ]% b; o8 n( F/ a
"z" and "w" with "v".9 W! U* l$ W( E
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
9 T, P) }3 d. H& ~# @0 t3 kafter 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 tu3 ^/ Z: D9 Y" j# y6 f2 |- n
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 e. r. L7 p# r7 F& [* OUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze! ?6 }& d8 D' t/ V6 E4 E2 `
forst plas.9 Y! Q" g7 v3 K* z# K- V. X) T
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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