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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ j$ I( H0 f& d3 r& H! U4 {1 D& F+ Y
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ v, t1 J7 |2 K+ w K
the other possibility.
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3 p9 I6 x% N& bAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English# n# ?9 l8 t1 _1 Q$ w. W& i
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
7 H' _+ x1 M9 a& U' M2 Pplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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5 [6 X: \) l# V5 e3 c% p) p! ?In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
5 M2 D1 P" ]$ T ` ]) pthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up7 _" s; x% v& T# w2 p
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.# i8 @7 T3 W N6 l) ~
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
) Z6 n1 u v: [& y$ ^+ L* Rtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like: x; Q' D* S; x( W" n! e e% |
fotograf 20% shorter., G2 [* T o) J( k8 ?1 o6 D" A
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 ?4 U6 q' {" j6 N8 G" Treach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
. m( y6 l7 h- t: [' ^( S! ~4 ?2 N( Hben a deterent to akurate speling., \3 ?" ~4 d. S, T
H+ e+ t, J; }+ e# Y E# AAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
# z8 i$ D) n4 w5 G/ Adisgrasful and it should go away.& H: e- Q9 y- p# J; r
9 I: ^! N- K x( R, RBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with5 s& ]0 v6 ^$ k9 V& H
"z" and "w" with "v".
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% J3 x4 c; [$ B8 M0 p4 [4 `During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and) R" I: O0 Y" r$ I4 Z: i
after 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 tu
]* Z4 T- m% Q+ wunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ S ]+ D" b2 X( \/ M, X! ^) I+ a
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 d( A8 }5 T" L8 A' ~
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: g( k |7 U r1 w: u3 B) [If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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