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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
" G: d. h. f, P/ B1 r6 m. Abe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
9 r; n T- A7 C) Y* P1 Uthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
5 O. I& L8 O2 x) V- T6 O t# Jspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, u) z6 `" Y' N* f6 I$ [
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make% t7 Z- M* J, f& v1 Z6 g! |
the sivil servants jump with joy.( ]* o7 n- U) n. d
) r% m. C' W! B( _# H' w5 F6 P7 mThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ ]/ B2 B3 o+ s
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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[7 I( L# z l; G0 sThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 v$ W: J1 g6 x4 I! [1 |" w
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like* l; g% c2 m1 W7 f, @5 J
fotograf 20% shorter.
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: s$ z0 }6 T2 Q- h- Q5 JIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to' X1 ]9 \ X. s" v
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.; a- q6 {/ y$ I- e$ K- a
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" _. O6 c a: Q; P0 _
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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: B6 ?. U/ `3 y& ^Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
5 N* h2 v' f3 I" @% j& G( @9 P. rdisgrasful and it should go away.& k4 B. Y6 B e
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with4 m" Z! C- A a) M. B2 p4 \; ]
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
5 c3 j' r" n! ]- Qafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.2 C) |9 v4 v8 R3 f7 ]4 e+ Q0 t* v. x
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
6 |3 h# W; ]9 I5 Runderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
3 k/ M: ?/ @1 l. b. UUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze( u! ]% b% j+ N) O5 I6 p. L
forst plas.
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" w( Q! F$ Q& _& U. {# _+ V5 U. F; tIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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