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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, I8 |" e+ S% K- [* ^5 j7 ibe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was2 i4 V0 T8 N. x0 @5 ^4 h
the other possibility.8 r8 h: A7 J. }/ O1 w: ?6 q
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
' [: B/ H4 r$ I7 E7 ]) Pspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in& J& l# ~/ `. o( f
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".2 g s. j8 w1 N- {% _2 T* j+ Y9 D3 S
, d0 `4 O' \: R0 DIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
: ^. s0 I; O- O' K; c" |the sivil servants jump with joy.
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1 a# v0 O0 B5 H7 ?2 j6 Q, o: AThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
! S5 S2 ^/ y* w. b4 p. Lkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.% g- x+ R$ r& W4 g! y
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& @. z9 j, [/ S* _: `; i' Y) C% ~There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
+ {3 Y5 u$ r8 W. Q; r4 k9 @' Btroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 m8 c0 o, d/ xfotograf 20% shorter.6 m1 z" E* k4 E5 w! Z4 B
$ r, b8 g% n5 HIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to- W! C- I2 t3 g4 a" n4 S
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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4 L! j5 y( J9 I8 ~; _8 D) H2 J, }% kGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always+ e' d' j' D2 c3 r9 }$ B% e
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
# c% j# P2 P! y0 q6 o$ Mdisgrasful and it should go away.7 L; O* k, q4 i& [) g- G
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ Q4 y1 a0 A& K# |( dafter 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- a# l$ {1 T8 a& N3 m0 F2 R* v
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.' L {0 J! E9 {+ o0 y- G `
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze7 V# k5 u$ T3 U q; @
forst plas.; T% d4 c0 i, _& V: m% O
' Z: M, v/ n" Q* C) c+ M6 E8 G' XIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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