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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will# h4 e& y- \7 T7 m
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 y" R* s- p7 p' R% Y. p+ L5 q
the other possibility.- Z# Q d( W4 d3 a Z8 z; E8 i" l
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
. N& g3 X8 @2 I# Kspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
F; B- `0 `9 S( H0 @0 z B: m( Oplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".3 i8 T- G! f6 b1 J& K2 V
% c) U6 [+ L3 f0 ?4 j D% J0 \In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
8 Y1 E E" @- y7 Q9 ]( T. ~the sivil servants jump with joy., }2 w9 o) y% I3 n1 L6 i* J# ~
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up2 x# u+ ^% q1 f: U' d& k+ u& A0 v
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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3 t1 h! k, B. t/ t. r' n( QThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the! I( |) K5 K8 A, k8 w
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
1 @' F# e: z( R5 kfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
) [9 R& [4 T" V( t6 @reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.6 [( s2 j- \9 z, X4 k% D! \
: b& n% }/ e- u! t9 ]5 k' A; \Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always2 T% P7 F9 ^5 W0 L0 }9 O
ben a deterent to akurate speling.9 B e1 |& t6 d( G/ T- g l
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
8 R5 _! Z9 g0 R* u0 {- n& Udisgrasful and it should go away.
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: T+ U: ? a: t p x1 \By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with- @7 H2 S+ K# V! Y7 w
"z" and "w" with "v".: F4 }9 ~& w# P v& M
* x8 M! F) p4 f; V Y/ q8 uDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" G0 a1 l+ r G
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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) i3 P( U3 T7 c) R& M7 ~2 a( LZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu- ~! e4 e8 w: e) _5 S3 f" V
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ s( F5 } \2 zUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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8 _, [$ h- ~ ]+ YIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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