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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ m( O7 [# g$ o; Y: z
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
: r- x; s. g; R6 M+ r3 F* R, @7 Mthe other possibility.. {/ D0 M1 f4 U4 Q% k3 C) @) b
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English8 Z) T# e2 N2 ]* z# o# L
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in1 w; y8 N% l- W' n4 N0 p
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".) E0 G+ |$ T8 D! Q0 _: ~: H
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make& k7 \* }4 O' v1 Y& `4 n
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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$ [) Z& _, E0 A! P5 NThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up( ]! c' e( `/ O, T c
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.8 W0 p7 b: B, ~
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
! H: K9 K2 c# i9 M5 a1 c5 Ftroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
) H* \5 S& L6 Q* o& ?fotograf 20% shorter.+ o4 _4 U: s2 ~6 a J3 ]
1 U9 s1 C+ A5 i i: X( [1 x: q! n2 NIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 k" J6 I' q2 Treach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always8 N, M1 d; U( _% ?- X( w. y
ben a deterent to akurate speling.; _' F+ S4 p8 k# E
3 _# N/ A; c2 KAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is+ p" d. q3 E: T
disgrasful and it should go away.' O! ^+ H' J, I( f4 N
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and3 \% U# l1 B: U4 B+ n0 Y
after 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
8 s5 o" ]1 ?+ L9 ^3 ~$ funderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
) l0 U4 \( Y6 \$ o3 j; D$ dUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze7 m8 s, z/ V2 p' ^
forst plas.
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3 i3 L5 c6 N: D( O) j' q4 pIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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