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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will, W" V3 _* K1 F3 J2 o3 d
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
. N! p" i4 L" ~" b$ d+ j% othe other possibility.2 {$ ^) E7 ?1 F. h7 T9 y
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
) b6 ~# i- Y; j( G, W5 cspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 m+ ~9 h( ]; n; p A
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish". O: e( {& N& [7 Z# h
; N5 q$ K" ~. X$ d. u" _In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
S0 n1 L$ ^% c% wthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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- I& J% v" K/ y! a* S lThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
2 H# B, M$ T: G0 s) r% bkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the2 D; O; f* h4 E
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like' i. q6 B4 d/ {+ _5 {' N& X
fotograf 20% shorter.
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# m+ W3 N# ?" L/ x2 E/ aIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
8 n4 Z1 m/ m+ F5 n% ~. j! F ~1 treach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.! R1 H, B$ F* V" n2 J- W- t* {
' B6 m: L; R% i Q5 |Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* F. i: q4 o* }8 \5 y
ben a deterent to akurate speling.4 o/ h! @2 l1 a; y: |/ J
; A4 B' X& q0 X8 jAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' |0 C- |; X; L2 Ydisgrasful and it should go away.; q9 q- W, J6 U7 u
, D( H& y4 Z6 d# Z1 x' D1 \By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
- s* R' V7 i% Y7 }7 K5 F"z" and "w" with "v".
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Y5 y, P1 L: @- r0 T* L; {During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
8 }# \7 [! E5 B2 vafter 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
' H6 L& T$ z5 m$ h4 h5 g0 d9 Nunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
: Y% T5 Z K0 ^: ?* M/ LUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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, q6 d( U3 F- A0 _7 |+ w+ h: JIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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