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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will* r/ x; a& ^) t. y& H9 P7 G8 r. \
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
' w! E* ?: ?$ c! X( ?the other possibility.
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" a7 `; U6 f. J0 _+ m; J4 }As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English {2 T! G( J: v
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
9 g/ z: X9 p) d* i0 b+ r6 Qplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ l/ f) P/ d1 b
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 o5 t2 y0 a+ d6 g. S
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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. V3 W, O. `7 RThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up1 n; I/ ?# Q" c2 n" {6 |2 i
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.8 t3 k! j% Y) z6 O1 h
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2 K! G, F8 S' V" n3 z; ^There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
- o/ f8 F, e, Ftroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like/ x* g s1 M* C
fotograf 20% shorter.; W. e$ C2 W& k4 n, ^
5 G. c) i! u! f# ?$ e8 WIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to& j4 a; |/ G- Y, ?" Z3 K
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* q2 P% g6 o) d( \& }
$ E0 o2 U8 B0 X1 P; AGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 i/ L$ b/ |) d( K* l k
ben a deterent to akurate speling.0 k t2 _" A: c8 [
2 y7 J! m" e/ D% M6 HAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
& ]+ W" _1 f* u9 u* g3 adisgrasful and it should go away., h0 N$ I, Z3 h; D( ?1 B' s. t
, }5 O, \5 L* k( VBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with: r$ K- O0 n, C- p5 J
"z" and "w" with "v".# u* [$ l8 w. N3 |' Q
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and4 s$ W5 p# p" g+ g
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. t# a0 G/ O" g! U7 l) J2 _) Q
4 ?8 a$ P- t% H Z3 o: ~5 k( t8 L( oZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" O0 {4 K$ E5 Q6 y6 }understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% j/ Q+ v) R! \/ `! M& c: E
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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8 p% x5 U% F( d) y" }! Z7 a3 ^1 |% jIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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