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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
& h4 ?$ S. [) o% V( X+ kbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was. w$ s/ l$ F' i3 Y; C
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4 D' w# e( U$ C! M3 H+ N1 rAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% v5 d1 F! S6 A
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in7 |' ~" m- R+ \* f9 J7 s+ z0 s7 F
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- P4 F8 ~+ h# l# }) T! b. o: z6 Y5 T
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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' j+ W) k) C+ Q, ?0 ?- PThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up5 H. d4 t. z" |0 \" C6 I' G: J, H
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.! ?4 Z* l* v% h( R( M$ ~* j
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
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fotograf 20% shorter.
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- F/ M. p; G8 a9 WIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to* _7 }" s( D: d# _! `* e
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.% p8 L3 H: G7 I) N" \5 w, P
' i1 Z' q, y8 C7 d, [Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
6 g3 M2 f& ?0 S+ t: zben a deterent to akurate speling.
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7 r1 L8 k' T% }7 IAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
2 y/ G4 Q% w2 }% jdisgrasful and it should go away., r( }1 K: L1 S. e8 c9 f
6 K/ ^- S) G: m5 n' { T5 r TBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with: k8 f/ I+ A; g
"z" and "w" with "v".5 }% K+ A- H/ W5 A
; O$ R/ m" H, r$ B$ CDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" ~6 c+ f" \; I$ R; l# _0 x. m" Y
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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* w5 X5 L1 F* G1 ]! hZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
+ @2 a9 }1 O1 c+ P1 y5 T! E& cunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 E' c. Z W+ l* E% U4 B8 ^7 ?+ ~
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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, y3 d# |/ S- [' h* D. lIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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