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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ w* T O3 \6 V" M# S" P
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ g1 r4 y9 r, g" f5 B
the other possibility.
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1 s! i. M& D! X' I/ _, D, }# G- i @' v4 sAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
1 L1 c, A P' y2 l- N' |* cspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
% n# y; B* ] ~/ R9 \2 Q5 {' zplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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" Q6 B6 G0 q! ?1 w8 v1 Y. PIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 O; c6 `+ e, U. g* \* N1 Z
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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* T# k8 p2 I! Y# o0 h0 lThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
' j/ M9 W: L+ x' `# o2 m+ [' skonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter." K% |0 h7 N" M/ I
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
_( s& t, ?- K* f4 _& e6 Dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like5 S( h# R# [3 D, W
fotograf 20% shorter.
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0 }; O. v; V' G/ ^In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to6 T; s6 N0 L) P2 w
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* k! q( ^* m6 a/ \! T
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
4 L! X; O/ u4 F9 O- Bben a deterent to akurate speling.
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, W# H2 f4 Y, {+ H7 D: U6 O2 fAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
4 c& M# |8 l ^( f7 ^0 {+ B9 u9 ~disgrasful and it should go away.
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. v; X( Z& F& _0 M! UBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 a. @( P, w: l
"z" and "w" with "v".3 h$ a& W$ Q( r+ S8 [* J
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 D" F( @3 W1 o( J; B
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.$ N' G: @# k6 F2 n% \1 S
3 B& I6 w& `; r; nZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
- e. }; r, @9 ~8 B$ yunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
3 ~% y+ s# n7 _# u9 O' iUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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) r8 y( w0 W- \# \6 w6 HIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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