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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will* S% I3 V [9 F5 ]9 \/ G6 p: d! u
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
) Z- C5 y) U" I" }2 V2 p" `. y% Mthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English; K* U, x( F& o
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in* h! ^3 U* ~- o0 j( F* O, U* E
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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( }7 F! V6 }% f3 E' k5 Z- |2 F+ wIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
: ~0 D4 m) L* k* N" J3 [% ]the sivil servants jump with joy.+ K2 r) W1 u" N' p+ X3 [
) t+ J( m% o; F3 eThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
/ K8 {9 Q6 |, C! D. v( Hkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 K+ l8 W' C8 S- s
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
F8 {9 c) T. U2 Tfotograf 20% shorter.
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* x: G9 y' S0 V4 K4 fIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 i5 L6 Q$ h# I5 u. |" T: W& l) areach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.! i2 k; P# t e6 G
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always) k+ y& J: E, y3 q) ?: A& [
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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7 U2 x* d f8 Q7 B ?1 p. tAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
% o: G3 ^, E% Udisgrasful and it should go away.8 Y; \. X! I4 t
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with v' O0 a6 z) X+ ]1 M! a
"z" and "w" with "v".; A: |/ t+ t W7 W4 a
+ S; W ?* L2 v# R3 w$ [! BDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
; M$ {! f" V: S) Iafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.7 w4 ~( _- ]8 N4 B& E
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu3 O: ^5 z n! p& `8 y: P* ^
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 c, O- {: m5 [* ?- [9 t# q7 oUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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9 C6 [: T6 R$ [If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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