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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ X& e. o7 [6 w3 Abe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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9 Y9 a6 w# F6 B- x: `4 Q) v5 j9 UAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% V# O) e" E6 K1 i8 u# W" O+ b O
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in; t7 A. C& e: i) P1 z f
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 n3 M3 \( z0 B0 g3 \
the sivil servants jump with joy.$ h- z7 A, n6 `0 F1 Y' p% c
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up* I- p8 x3 u1 X4 _
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. w, s% k, j9 e
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the) l' d1 [! B; q% R' p+ @
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
( ]% D! K0 `' p: j1 [8 }fotograf 20% shorter.
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0 r/ w' I0 Q8 H1 Y- a0 w1 mIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
% J4 ~, |* p( f u6 p" p- sreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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9 h3 k' v( f: y- ^) C$ ]Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always7 w2 q8 X. W. s
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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4 ^6 U& t6 }: t2 h. Z9 jAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
6 [5 |$ z! t, g2 a, ~8 ~6 ldisgrasful and it should go away., q S+ E; ?9 @- y
0 u& n& j+ ` H4 J/ k5 g5 rBy 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"and7 v1 R |4 w: y
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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4 g2 H$ ?+ S' w: c/ gZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu0 S9 s% z. ^& u& f; I: x' v
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.' u/ ~6 j3 S& ]$ G P
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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4 c! X$ u# |; J# a0 zIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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