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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will% }, b9 l, L+ X& x( Q/ @% v" X
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 H( q; \7 y9 F
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
9 T( q* x' s5 I! q6 t3 _spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ N$ z: R, w) ?4 h
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ u+ C5 c( `* ]8 ~
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
8 [ T3 ? d x0 Vthe sivil servants jump with joy.+ {/ A, s3 l1 V& R9 |2 k
$ m5 F; ~2 a" nThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
0 e" {4 t/ U# j" p6 M1 \0 mkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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) u5 i/ t \6 M" ?7 ?There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
7 h5 e- V6 N7 b/ D) mtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
~, ^ r$ o) C8 k8 [# Q2 j+ c& Ufotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to( V* y8 \+ ~* I- [$ R; k
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
* U/ r: W3 x" R6 \ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
# ?2 A6 s0 C! N' n" t% b Fdisgrasful and it should go away.0 _+ q1 k; Y; o) |
) j- ?( L8 g4 F: nBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 v: {) j& R% z
"z" and "w" with "v".
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% w, |3 N9 |3 T2 A8 X! V' Y& SDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and$ V& B) [4 y: h0 z" S
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.7 W2 a* Y- i& }
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu3 q. B& q4 ?1 ]/ n4 Y
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
3 |# F: O6 Q. sUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze8 f3 E( ^' d+ ~- e) K: ?/ F2 O. E
forst plas.
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' q8 j, [% W4 Q) yIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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