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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
; V. [. W8 x) @2 @. U! ~. I5 ^" Cbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
# ?5 H! H& |9 ^2 n: M% U' [) ythe other possibility.& n& M) m, F3 b
' |# A! c! c% |( I$ MAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% f8 S3 i$ v# F) J, t# `
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, w2 u; d$ c: T* i, v8 h
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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/ \2 J! U8 Z6 ?/ H$ l. UIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make# f" j5 _: s) l! t5 i. `" P8 e
the sivil servants jump with joy.8 N# R. k% z2 D' t9 d
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up4 ^( `7 X6 _9 g" N& W% ^
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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/ b, x2 J$ ^% G2 P" KThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
& D, j2 `* { @1 A0 G' ztroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, N% m/ i3 d t L; W* S$ Kfotograf 20% shorter.7 a8 a$ u4 H0 L* y/ a2 q% z G
. v2 F- o$ K' M$ T0 G |In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to- b+ {# a5 e y* n: T
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.0 v) W$ Z: S" f8 u: a% v: ^9 s% Z. Z
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always2 C. _8 m. a: P1 Z4 I
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
8 Z1 P1 y, x: ydisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
7 g+ Q; r% |: y4 K$ G"z" and "w" with "v".
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1 c" w2 V9 E& h) \- NDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
8 P0 I1 F+ K( k+ q6 wafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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9 }4 Y% n% l8 N b9 A) ]6 vZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu) b" y& I7 h! U' Q# W1 h5 U/ C
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 R0 u. q, J6 R. W8 m! X4 @Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze. W( ^* r" {( b0 E' T
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, Q; O7 v& Q$ ~8 S$ g% [$ AIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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