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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
# H: h- q! Q# B) _4 {" `be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was& C, h/ f; G+ Z* V8 w2 V6 b
the other possibility.
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, Z4 H$ T+ {6 F$ Z- GAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English0 \5 x2 J5 s1 o* t6 T
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
) k t& K6 C ]0 C7 Y S2 q( Nplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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1 E% R# P& s u' H& K. b$ u3 a( fIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
! B. d( W }# e" V% hthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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% X/ S" T2 z4 c- M7 UThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
& ^1 }3 [. }( v7 ?) R+ Wkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.1 H: I/ j9 [2 D. s* ^" t
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0 q! O, U. v! g) p/ R) F: uThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the' ~. d4 ]* G( A6 G9 F( M/ w
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 j) q9 { ?9 x; S0 ]/ M z
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
; c% {$ N9 _; Z: hreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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$ O. o* ]$ k* l% ^Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
( k3 ]- s: z4 B7 U$ wben 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
+ v2 I9 P2 C9 p% S& ^+ }disgrasful and it should go away.
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" }: L* G2 q( V5 P: q/ K7 I9 VBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ P# @: Y: Y, R
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and5 c; i1 ?7 s# b- D" ^
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl./ H1 l: p) h) F, U/ E% h# g0 X
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
) P7 s5 _; q/ |2 _' m- @0 j& dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
9 {% |* [9 c! l* Z8 ^% j9 C6 eUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze; p9 ^3 p( f( b- |4 |
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' P* w0 j# s2 N# V4 L6 }2 ^If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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