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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ E) R; x. y7 I
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was6 k$ y& V% Z! w$ ~8 L/ s" e; {
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
# K3 ?) Z1 Q, ^1 f/ M. H7 Fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
) O% h( B- p( Z8 g9 P: o) }; mplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
K2 t0 a1 S1 D; o. Tthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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+ ?; @7 M3 Z2 YThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
6 m; }- B" f3 w; ?* D8 _, \! okonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., t/ A( `6 F2 T# f4 K8 o3 _
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0 [- u- n2 H( _7 Z! lThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; r( x$ i+ C8 y, \% ^3 r+ z9 Xtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
+ |, [- A1 {. ]7 ^* q1 ?fotograf 20% shorter.
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# T2 `6 Z* C8 o& b; A! K+ @8 A$ pIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to; c2 {( h2 p, T9 I) \4 R
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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3 L8 b K9 F) q8 b: `$ Z5 MGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
4 K4 M# S& Y/ t zben a deterent to akurate speling.5 O5 p" ~0 `/ M; a7 P; ?
\" L/ N' d! i' OAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
+ m; l/ u7 X0 O3 Hdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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9 s8 K" A5 ^/ b/ f iDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and$ r' ]- h% [& u3 Z
after 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
1 c/ L2 P# F; Z) z* f! {+ runderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ i2 t9 l" U- v% Q: m) f
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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2 t! ~' c, {% L9 q5 k8 qIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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