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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will5 L2 q; Q0 X: E3 l% u0 ]! F
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
/ I: b: S7 Q/ O Bthe other possibility.
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+ {% D. [# ~# @" {: K+ W2 NAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English6 j a; G3 y- j# G3 V1 W# ?
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
# @$ M O" t- y2 s$ fplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".; v; l5 R9 L. w/ F
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make1 \) I" m0 M: W9 ] B- G
the sivil servants jump with joy.* `4 I$ b4 k% x r, p: g/ ]1 w
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ r* f4 A5 D5 {, `/ _+ s
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.. R8 s/ B% c7 |7 p& {1 a+ I
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; y. P0 n5 q! K- H* e; Otroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
; `9 j% i$ D: j: i% o L2 K0 Afotograf 20% shorter.
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- i# D' O1 a: C. Y+ ~In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. F! X0 ^; z' P: c
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible./ {4 [$ z" \! V7 f2 z$ g' ~8 D
( t8 w1 b1 d9 X2 |, dGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 u& ^4 a% ?! z, n
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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1 V5 b$ R$ A- ~3 i1 Y# g* HAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
& ?+ E" t' b( q6 U6 q/ udisgrasful and it should go away.! E7 M' x4 E n
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! Z \8 c5 s# _& \% b3 O$ G
"z" and "w" with "v".
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( ]& q& J6 `1 cDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and1 E6 S: J% a, |2 G7 }
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.! O# ?% _! @( \5 \9 l
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu" ^) S+ _; u+ \" t; a' F
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.6 n8 P% C* J$ g/ a% \8 ~# f
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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0 C4 V% a* K r; Y* S/ GIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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