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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will5 y' Y6 M6 G' [+ }
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was! w& p' u2 ^/ s- f: u4 W) {
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English2 y0 E8 }" f8 C) q' n
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in9 Z7 x8 P: v; ^* z9 O
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" B. C! k d+ A5 @/ [
the sivil servants jump with joy.9 w# g5 }) K! f+ Q. J' x
: G0 Q5 E; w$ Y! M- b- S4 mThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up- E |* W1 S! S
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.# O2 {/ b. x2 l8 {& }" G* J
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
6 v( n8 Q! } T% x: Stroublesome "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% [' _2 H9 X4 q
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.% i& V2 _* r; A
5 x' \3 @; m2 MGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
, B, j2 u& p, ?4 `' |ben a deterent to akurate speling.# ]! j; B- j H& }& b# l U
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is- `; O5 R, ?5 j
disgrasful and it should go away./ {% s7 {: n- u3 G, Y
( F, u$ O3 O0 l' Q0 `+ a1 g7 J2 aBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with' n4 b6 T/ u9 {: f C% {
"z" and "w" with "v".: A2 V6 o+ y( m5 C4 ^( H! B
% _7 _' |1 l/ u7 B9 ~! nDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
2 Q% f, g1 h% bafter 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 tu3 t0 M z- y" g3 h1 _
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
" x' H9 t7 a" H( Y0 ZUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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