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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will, \$ c* N+ Z. P, y" O& Q
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was0 j1 Y% e+ @8 Y7 f* Y, B0 X0 d" @
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
( D' Q# l( ^9 w7 S8 nspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
9 R5 g r# b! @, {8 N/ _8 K8 b X1 ^+ cplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".5 M p$ S6 p7 j) ^% W
7 j" X! W& X2 u, D: {9 c: f3 {In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
" Z8 D T" {6 r$ x2 d2 G* @the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
6 K- X7 S0 T# h" H4 M. ~, H/ O/ [konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the1 H5 ^$ w" S: O, A! R
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
$ c" g; T9 y8 |' Z5 Z7 j5 ^: ~reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.! l1 \! h2 a" e& N/ t% T& ~
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: ]. ?; k. _6 H, M' U* }8 a
ben a deterent to akurate speling.& d. s" [$ g Y2 F( B
% w" { k2 c1 ZAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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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"and
3 M, j b9 ^! D8 w/ n7 Qafter 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
& r: Q' s {, h0 s) i* tunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
3 m- G; Z u! @4 W7 a+ q- p1 _Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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v9 e# o n/ L7 s gIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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