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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
7 v5 h$ Y% q% a- h0 c9 r% q0 Rbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was; l V1 y8 r) |9 p3 \$ {7 t
the other possibility.
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- T; ?# E. q& MAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English! z4 W( s# f) V1 G K/ A
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
6 C, |* d6 u. D% [$ L, Lplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- W( b+ e' B; k
: Z2 P9 [/ L+ o5 Z j& `In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
# y7 G a* O8 j. Q/ X) h8 Z& V: fthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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; ]+ V7 d2 `% K* i( NThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
4 N9 W9 B+ e* h$ I; nkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: F* A" K" @6 h- F% ?/ vtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like5 q( t8 j' {( S. I( G, f1 L( a
fotograf 20% shorter.
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) B5 @+ u- s# E+ CIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to, r o- ~9 h X1 b9 ~9 @: F3 Y- s
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always2 x8 j$ q9 v! p
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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6 K% C) S2 \. T2 P IAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
1 x$ C3 _( n' G& R+ q/ I) t( ?disgrasful and it should go away.6 |/ J& v: c. y# x) J
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with8 L! r9 U) }* V% a' z. D& A- ~+ S; l
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and& u$ c% M9 W& a2 H- B
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.2 B8 u; O$ n' v# n. l/ l
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
J1 V8 U2 N! C: zunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- K3 t* P; e6 A: l% O* m
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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. K8 c2 b3 E J7 n5 b( h( Z! IIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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