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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will" F& e8 V/ _7 o' @
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was2 c2 \$ `! f* A" O# G1 F: @- K
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English5 s) W- K5 r2 Z2 N6 i) U
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in6 X3 X8 W$ @/ y+ e; |( Q
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".* y0 e T/ D# k2 a% q& p4 n% W
1 }& {0 U: ?4 I% O+ s8 V. f3 lIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make$ M! f2 i4 J/ o8 Y" e, W9 u
the sivil servants jump with joy.; T+ T+ o; Z6 C" x% r0 X/ f5 D
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
. l/ ?0 Z- q* W' f/ Kkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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- Q( ~6 C p9 S+ }( MThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& \- t1 r8 j4 q$ P- L% K! H8 A
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like4 g$ R! [6 ^" Y7 g7 A* g; y
fotograf 20% shorter.; V$ I- t! C5 X( u
y7 F: ?! I- t% l7 @' LIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 ^' t+ ]1 x$ `& l: q' Sreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.# b' }3 h' e8 e2 ]) m
& x# E' w6 D: `3 W1 ]2 W( ^Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
# g$ U; N+ ?4 K: _0 I, Wben 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( o6 A" H% X! w2 F
disgrasful and it should go away." n, o) k; W5 M& ?
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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"and9 c+ ` C& y( m% d: l6 k! a9 N8 P) m
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.. i: o; S0 L5 T/ m) r
6 i& c) Q9 S: A0 C" sZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu1 ?1 h, q: U6 n( s# l5 i( _4 \
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
) A$ ~: o; b/ t) o4 eUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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, b1 u2 z, P& b3 s( C2 L. {If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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