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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
. E- y, r' z( ?( {be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was4 `+ l! b( v4 F# i
the other possibility.5 {; [( T' o7 F8 _# N* X
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
% b# R$ {" q9 L4 D' J% @$ Tspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
. j! D% h+ s5 n* ~7 T+ C) u0 eplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make1 D8 @& B# K( y: j) z
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up* N8 ^0 D: D/ V: k; g
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.. H- ]- k; @! k" j$ s" S/ }" g8 l: P, W
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, M% u$ c. A- s) ~* }( y
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
/ Q! y6 {5 ]3 g4 J2 G8 Rfotograf 20% shorter.( ^' C; w+ U: `
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. J5 D5 \# y+ K3 E
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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/ M: b5 j; w6 h: RGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always) j2 n/ U e3 ~; q" M
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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! N4 k* h D/ a; V* O( z) xAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
% S- i) H1 ]) T# z! @disgrasful and it should go away.# z% o- D* V4 n5 M
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with1 x) ]! E/ i& Y S
"z" and "w" with "v".
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% U. H0 K; R- CDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
" J3 a+ v# m! M/ a# Yafter 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: O( Q' G" X6 }+ x
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; N: @5 h7 o5 ?& b& G6 PUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 U# J2 s5 ]* k" D2 s
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/ @" B( w: [0 B* [7 v7 f. Z) v1 |If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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