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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
8 C* v6 h( L; \+ _3 V; @& X: Ybe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was; T1 @+ y" X4 v2 T4 Z
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) y# L: j+ x" a6 v) b9 G9 RAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English Y# V1 @; |% S% @, h9 l8 }" F
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
6 V' p' E! _+ L( ^, M+ B& Gplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% M$ e% n% e) k8 X
7 i9 Y5 f2 O$ EIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
( n, r/ g* | pthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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: F' c7 o# c( |* B6 X( YThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
: x& [. _% J9 V% Z1 b @konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.5 f" I: u9 W0 w) u- o0 E* G1 d
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
5 ]% ~- h4 X4 f( l) H% Btroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like% T& l. c+ o5 y1 q6 \
fotograf 20% shorter.
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$ R' [1 W1 K! T$ @- x/ ]4 _In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
. {: y W6 w9 b6 o7 m P& Mreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.9 a# a& V; e# K
' Q% J& X B2 d6 I' x- qGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
! d( A0 [0 f$ _/ u* x( yben a deterent to akurate speling.: V9 _' h* m4 Q/ d
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is5 Y8 q [/ m' O8 B! x% ^
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
2 t' Z8 z# x" K8 d$ [& ~6 t0 ["z" and "w" with "v"." }4 g5 t D+ ^% I# }4 _% o
: Y# }3 q+ v% sDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: [2 ^% Z9 x: e7 }# b
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.$ e+ B1 U1 `5 ^# \+ {
. i: h5 p# ~6 W2 M- s1 W9 bZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu- h8 h0 E* g) ?! L* d
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
6 e8 F5 \3 _0 H, pUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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& ^5 L0 a, c; G3 r) j1 eIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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