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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 ?3 @ {* C9 z3 B
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
4 C5 h7 c0 ?/ `1 M' L7 G4 e! Nspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in9 w+ {3 e5 O6 m) v5 _+ C; s
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".# D7 u, h, A. }& K& K8 A
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make7 s$ P: ]% s2 x9 C! m
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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7 T1 K0 f ]( [# g UThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
- R! o: F! c3 o% okonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.& A- u& ]" T; F% R0 N
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# c% Y. a4 Q* A8 y% J: bThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
- E2 _% k- g6 \/ Y2 htroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like+ e* ^# I1 I. { t: ^: H
fotograf 20% shorter.* e% j2 n6 \8 T9 X. }8 N
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
) P r4 w: G4 H5 f, Ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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' ?: u; l7 v' l9 MGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% Q4 a& A% v9 o" E7 r. K% X* ~# p6 }
ben a deterent to akurate speling.' n/ J7 p; M2 p, A% J
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
: R/ `, G# {! |+ z3 f8 i1 edisgrasful and it should go away.2 e" x* q; g, n& Z2 h
7 K7 Z) S( d- PBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
" I7 T; Z9 ] N2 L" ?/ L. m7 s' z"z" and "w" with "v".. z, p% D4 L9 [* H. ?7 d0 [3 \; e- z
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" m/ S/ |/ G) F$ w/ G/ }
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.1 i7 o! @: H, l n- l3 a
* V5 U. ?( b1 G' X3 DZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
; E) k; d0 L) t* @$ iunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 R3 V8 ^# |# uUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze, N$ D: e' r% Y
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* k; W: \$ Y7 D# L9 `3 HIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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