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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
4 |( w6 L4 T; q0 X! J$ u% k$ s& Y3 ?; fbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
6 ^1 H+ f. C0 m6 z: P! W7 m! cthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 i0 \& _% S8 ]# p w" A7 Mspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% ]8 h0 Y9 @: J# V
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".2 D t2 T+ h" V) W
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 n& k. ~7 F8 y$ ^- F; ?- G
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
: M* b+ k, }( u0 V* a2 ^" `konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 g0 m" O5 A& n: b5 L& H- Htroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like" L+ ^. G8 e+ m: N( @/ \
fotograf 20% shorter.
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, s# e+ h: w+ |2 d( {' P0 QIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to5 z2 S5 S/ E2 Z* x8 ^+ }
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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7 q+ S1 Z. [! {6 `( B# M- m- u4 a& aGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
! E1 \5 W% A+ N# h" v% b0 z' Cben a deterent to akurate speling.
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- r9 P7 @% D$ W' m2 mAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
" A# |1 ]( k! A- b3 Zdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! D- e+ j' R* K! M1 }
"z" and "w" with "v".; W3 |) S; u- t2 l2 m. [ s/ o
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. g5 \3 x3 X$ ?( w) L/ H* R, Uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu9 Y$ G( S8 I) R) k
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.& y9 |2 l+ A7 N2 c
Und 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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