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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will s" i; }- }% a. U9 W5 F, V
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" M4 s `4 z2 i. b ^+ V
the other possibility.
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; z; X: `0 q5 ~4 B# Q! TAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
7 z) |3 p# |. ^; K, i1 E9 gspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* b9 n! [! g6 D: B: E0 `plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".' h( m8 l# S' q( ]
8 {) h$ J' K" Z9 n/ J" Q' Q/ |In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make/ w: P. g/ Q8 v
the sivil servants jump with joy.% P/ T( O( M' ~. p' d- p4 r
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up6 G: l( o7 O. @, S3 g
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.- S* S+ _2 N' b/ ^3 M
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the( W7 k9 Z) o! L! @. ^4 E
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like4 C X4 j. }0 g* B! l9 r
fotograf 20% shorter.
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3 k& a* | Z& \0 Q# w) O; v, JIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 E" |8 P. W% Xreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 Z7 K7 A* n1 x: z
( b+ a: b6 c6 f6 l( ^: Q5 ~Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always8 h1 M0 Y! r2 u$ i; j* `% ]' d6 u
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 q$ q3 O* ?- ?, N
disgrasful and it should go away.; N7 l4 k. ~8 ~( P V# J
2 _9 A6 I# a0 o; c8 E. e2 YBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with2 }* i! r- |1 W! E
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and' n+ R9 O8 ^: t( @
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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* q4 j; w- |" g4 ~Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu1 z3 w# I* i$ y" |2 D% h2 p
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
" y- R& Z8 z# w( M5 Q r3 t7 ]Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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% `" Y+ O# G& y7 _" O( y' RIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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