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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
8 S; r! ^) {& K# @" M) ybe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was, t% {* R1 H& @ _7 Q- P3 ^
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 u) Z# r* M1 i8 |' G& {spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in3 d/ ^. k' C4 y- z/ G, a
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".3 n4 I/ U& ~7 ], {
1 q$ `) ~' D& |8 gIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
% R2 e% \0 t& E! k0 j$ ethe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up2 l1 v! U" ?, z& p3 J2 Z
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.; D l2 q' p5 [5 Y
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the6 [$ K# p! {3 L$ e. f
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
% u# w& R3 k. R/ ^+ K0 f; F/ Rfotograf 20% shorter.( L1 y8 T n5 J- e9 p/ N
& M9 A/ G" j. z! k8 pIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
1 a, b; n. C @reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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5 T8 ^- t2 @6 [1 `- dGovernments 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
" B0 i( c4 Q' ^$ _disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with: _$ S# C3 d+ L. D8 l7 m3 p
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and9 K; I! d9 i) W# p: _) A5 x, l
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( U! Y0 R7 Z( i
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.3 n9 v0 Y* U) v4 Z$ E* Q0 Q }
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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" w5 z6 s) O0 T( [- dIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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