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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' m5 }7 ^( l0 K9 ]/ C
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
# i$ H% _0 y1 H$ ethe other possibility.7 s' d6 R' U4 }4 r7 j' z% w2 Y9 R5 b& x
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English, ]( G/ |- u5 Z5 ~
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in0 ?( U5 w& @# z4 b5 p8 N9 g
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".2 e, u6 ^! P1 K2 n! N" z0 u
8 G# ^0 H5 a7 f8 @. U% v6 EIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make7 y% j! y4 `& V$ U# H0 a
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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9 ~4 F# t( I% y: ~9 _7 l, W& XThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up8 Z8 I) K3 i/ Y' T+ e
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 M/ m! G$ ~6 H% V B' g
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 u: R" Q, S |5 \: ?, D: ?. Hfotograf 20% shorter.
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* q% |( R: O" S: N1 ]) sIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to$ L2 V3 K" \( t" z- L
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible." m6 J$ r8 ^; A7 j2 n# p* _1 p C% H
" [' d& M( b9 ?Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always; q& l5 C" @( {$ L
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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$ O5 }" C" U1 K8 sAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is# S* O- @$ s$ V
disgrasful and it should go away.* ?5 a/ k+ g- n- I$ g" J6 B
" M: v$ ]) a1 [ ~4 _' d6 |' EBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with/ y% b$ ~4 {: w3 W( H& N2 K2 Q& J
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and6 I K& B1 W. a4 C8 v B: {
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, [/ Z! R3 P; ?3 V4 ], I' z* F
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
5 l3 y4 e8 Y+ U. G+ W2 ~$ EUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze. f' t. ], J, d" m. ]8 @
forst plas.
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+ E1 D$ T2 ~3 B( EIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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