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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will8 v; @: s. u9 _0 Y
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# N! y# R- N) z+ s
the other possibility.0 T1 I, \- H, s+ r" u# M7 r# m
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
: U" E, ~7 R. T' qspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
A1 i/ w& g* y0 J- r" a/ eplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ a5 {) g7 ?# W
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make' R5 C* \" q5 C
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up) Q* I0 c8 x4 m" a0 S
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.# `1 X% G6 t" }; Y1 q
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* r' [+ K! l, p4 ~There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ b/ o4 W! a4 I7 M2 u g) Mtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like5 x% Q; K8 L* U t; l! p0 \3 z9 V
fotograf 20% shorter.7 P3 S+ j: R4 z: C+ ?
) v6 p7 v4 a9 T: x- R8 [! g- vIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to$ W) _2 b$ n' ?8 x h
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
1 `) |0 z& h$ f. _: B2 Rben 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
, n+ U, `8 n6 I4 Ydisgrasful 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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3 j2 y0 [- ?0 i5 @During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* u0 B# X" j5 ^* qafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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* d4 R) x0 `. w8 FZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
( D( f9 G i [' Z; g1 Hunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
( E w$ _+ Y" R1 k) mUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 J3 r, N/ H7 X1 N' k7 Z/ y9 e& A
forst plas.
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