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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 f3 ^/ Y8 z3 I3 Q
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was) I y3 Z: K: D2 H" `3 m: c3 H
the other possibility.
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) A# T" s" N4 }/ J$ M7 wAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English( O9 j; t7 @# m6 b' M
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
( e/ b6 f; d& |/ @plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".9 R4 z) }9 |6 S9 A9 D8 l8 B
6 U- V/ F! \9 r% m5 \8 m. p1 a! }In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
- F' H( K* L$ W& ythe sivil servants jump with joy.& B% k+ v- K8 {/ v8 B
+ y. ]. d+ [% { qThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% p% S" ?4 ~. g, ^ u
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
! N0 l7 g6 U& [$ R5 ]troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like3 e- X" O N0 i# `$ A( k- O1 d0 R
fotograf 20% shorter.; r; ? |1 S" w+ `& {; I
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to8 \; O: [3 }& s* B" U
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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* Q$ R- N4 q* x! S# ?Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
$ g& b2 {7 u" m, q1 Hben a deterent to akurate speling.4 U$ Q' l' V$ W8 v" C
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is+ f, e U/ \! L' V# p! ^5 ^: @. i [
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+ ?( H2 f; |% @- B" k p
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) T' c! n) T% a4 `% mafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; S! o) l2 K, i. C
, p7 T$ y$ J0 N; I; H. KZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu# `) q+ I. S, {; y- T
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 g( b' F' Z' \( b# P- [/ \Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze( h% t5 X7 U* f. @# a
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2 p6 t% x) z" Y8 _# dIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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