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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
) r0 B4 k% D* u4 b1 hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was; V# O0 ^3 H" P4 C. N8 \7 _
the other possibility.
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% k# R4 {1 v8 X% y: L; DAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
" c# {$ _( P$ {5 y1 ispelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
# A1 \; x3 W H8 {plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".$ P) l) M0 c9 }& C; U$ x b5 y
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
1 T# L& Z% E; F- lthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
+ V8 q7 }! D5 k9 \! j/ ]konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ P4 i5 `: X' N1 L4 f, j* _$ _
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the; x! A$ ?" {; \+ O
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; }2 L8 E x1 i" G
fotograf 20% shorter.3 C# L( u# E5 ]3 ~
7 X: a; s8 ]0 y1 L; h* ^1 j/ `" MIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to$ {) Q0 I& w5 k
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.( A# |: L3 j; s6 ]8 ] n
- a3 G2 h2 ?5 l* x1 b$ qGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always' V( t; k1 l! U/ g$ J1 ^
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
3 g$ J( w s; gdisgrasful 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
1 [" f; m5 F. O, s( r0 ~+ gafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.' f1 R' a5 x% @/ j* F
4 W% d0 M# N: ~3 e2 Q2 cZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
, P) l1 `3 m7 ^( b4 S4 h9 Iunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
6 a p: Z8 c; `( n0 uUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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! D i _/ X+ d0 R2 D! ^If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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