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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, q9 L% Y, v$ c5 O, M1 m' zbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
. [' ?9 k1 P2 L8 S1 hthe other possibility.
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/ s9 b% s+ L$ q! VAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
+ X& e9 e/ Z2 K# ^. g2 g" Jspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ g/ B* x) _3 X" J
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- i8 F( v% A( t; X
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make% P7 t1 v4 D0 r: \# T! c% y+ U
the sivil servants jump with joy." }) W7 F6 j" {0 W
- ^3 F9 h2 f/ t. W6 M. \The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up6 w% j; ]( B) x2 m7 I
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the2 g4 M- F0 L* w- y. H; r
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
8 U5 G! Q! Y* z- c0 r! Z+ b6 K* {: Nreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
/ ]7 ?# S) g) D7 N$ m( u; k. eben a deterent to akurate speling.# S. D: i# a. m( m5 G9 ^$ O
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is% B! K- R( s0 P
disgrasful and it should go away.
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5 A- S2 G# c0 D: z/ j4 p3 }By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with0 n' C1 N) e; T4 D ^
"z" and "w" with "v"., F/ d9 l, T' [, K3 G
, J" j% K% t$ z, a5 I' V, mDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and& d$ _1 P+ Z- m
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.# N0 J) g0 x" a! o) F2 W3 Q
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu9 t* f1 ]' y/ g3 f4 F2 x& R! b7 {
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ w& I4 M1 A* B. xUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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