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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will8 q1 x8 J. e1 {8 r5 Y
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
: b: ]9 q" I R$ g2 r9 L' athe other possibility.
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# D8 ~ k& b+ H! o8 vAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English3 Z. Z" e4 `: \6 e3 W- }3 _6 ~0 k6 y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" J, _2 G+ @) C1 K# B. U
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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l p. C/ C. N* ~0 l# cIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
: @3 m: N1 D8 ` u6 f! Ethe sivil servants jump with joy.! e, X8 t' v- z! v& X1 v+ [1 \+ X, B
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
4 q/ T* m/ I) E% Jkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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8 R; Z- X* N; l Z9 z, zThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
! X: q- P1 m* F" v. B/ Btroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
+ w& t8 G8 E2 w+ L& G7 n9 h" O9 xfotograf 20% shorter.
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* F |1 Y% e$ t X1 }4 FIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ M4 M5 [% _$ e% }- ?/ Preach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
, R; S0 d2 z2 S" u( `$ `8 iben a deterent to akurate speling.6 m' ~/ @( s' F* U1 Z7 S$ U# f
6 e1 M/ }* P1 l2 P5 P0 B2 g3 OAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
4 ^9 k+ I/ B- p: ?3 T% P: U+ K- {disgrasful and it should go away.! U& l# u y" H1 q' s' \/ D5 g) W) X
. G5 c& a9 d6 b! y9 I5 X' Y% {By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
% i+ i' e- ^: x/ y2 ^% D% H"z" and "w" with "v".
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+ t( R+ [0 F' C# G1 Y S0 m: @* E+ bDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
& v q$ G* Q6 W4 L( hafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.+ a- m( M6 n3 Z+ ], K4 j+ y
( N d& y4 Q- ^0 i6 ~& t. n, KZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu Q- E* s2 T8 e, h |: {
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% r- y! D" O L% J; b% G0 M
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 V* h0 F$ d5 a5 |' I7 J
forst plas.
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