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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will: q6 C8 Z" b; m! O N4 C
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
9 ~% E8 X! {+ I! I, h' m. E; Cthe other possibility.6 ?7 w+ u( b3 g8 l
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
9 A" U- B; M- p: M: D: cspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* j2 x6 ]/ T$ ^* r0 A+ nplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
) K$ W( a5 |4 B8 F. Q# y/ W# Jkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., C/ X+ h0 J& _- f8 a3 W* \. W- O
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/ u C" J+ y, u$ \There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
9 k% ~+ C5 J) p2 z- z) rtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like9 E: U9 A { V) l6 `' f: G! |7 y% q
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. W2 T5 I& A w
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.8 v9 {6 [9 Q1 r7 ?1 Z
, O. J9 j" l9 w& s" h- g) z' FGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; B' D+ o' c( e# |5 p, bben a deterent to akurate speling.; U- d. Y S' ~5 M& P
: ^0 Z" W9 Z# t9 K. X) m" @Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is4 e- T) W r+ C% @) v
disgrasful and it should go away.# ^8 s& u+ E5 }% h& s
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with3 \0 b' F, Y% W; P
"z" and "w" with "v".* g+ X ]7 ]7 h0 I/ D% r
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and* l; g/ z. N& f$ r
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
; d6 X% J7 @' l, x6 g8 g! cunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; ^, |1 z- F; e0 {( L! d8 Z% {Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze+ i/ q. b# f2 E" U/ d
forst plas.
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- {+ @& i( P- U5 h3 o8 I0 |If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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