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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ I" \3 s5 {7 Z6 b+ K
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was1 S* \7 r" {. ?* {1 I
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
8 v9 S! H' e- ?spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
9 O3 E: Y$ s5 n- u8 ^; F3 V( d- tplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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" _& `+ l: n, _" m$ ~! O$ @) {In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! v5 A' t) ?+ L* Q& M
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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/ v8 @/ a! {/ h; a# S2 O; \# JThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% [. Q7 A* L- ~7 |
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.8 s' O; x8 H0 ~0 }; |
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/ V' y. E+ h8 k1 V# {- C% Z) Z/ kThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
* A/ R$ ^% p5 P$ u! ~2 }troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, T- V8 X6 G' q& R8 Qfotograf 20% shorter.
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6 Q0 t! o$ b8 O: N0 S# VIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to, M4 j z7 v% d" n
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.' M, C# P+ ]- l" E) p2 F+ E
- o# w9 y7 X; z9 [# h% ]- K4 h: AGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with- w1 E5 a. l- s6 d" k
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 m' r& I; |( v' H0 P' J; U0 {8 M3 tafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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) X5 L( q5 A0 \8 PZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
5 c; p( ` S7 D5 j) p d% kunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- J5 Z) {& I9 _7 ?5 N2 O
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 l2 w8 o" \7 G1 r" A4 a# o
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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