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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will y) b) X2 s" T5 V0 B
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was+ C3 j i' S3 Y W# b* R; A% x
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
( o5 ?& b: X1 A3 Sspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in+ L! i8 }* l5 D7 K% _
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! X' e5 h5 F# z" o
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
8 h1 o" |; m, D! ?* a# dkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.# o( `' M' x' O9 r& t$ ^
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, l' L+ |+ E% R: I! [There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: N& R/ Y. W7 f/ W1 \/ ^# N3 gtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like: O" D" D0 w2 i# X) I" ~# B# k4 ~
fotograf 20% shorter.
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% D9 n1 _" y/ E% m8 S1 f' [( BIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ {8 C: N0 @4 vreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
2 N- c: o! l$ b% S% a9 X( }ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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- j+ o6 n6 ~$ M) r( X5 ]/ VAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
) s) ?. a3 I, n- d+ Y: ddisgrasful and it should go away.' w2 {! Q" ]1 u6 N7 p- _
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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5 R2 x/ B0 U9 M6 A& U9 {During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: h& q0 J4 n; l% ^
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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2 t8 c0 }5 F. D3 y( Z' a7 F6 TZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
3 A! N0 f# b- ]( s: Q' r8 Wunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.1 h- i) Y: u# \) o
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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# c0 M4 @# F4 L; c) _If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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