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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! q& D0 Q) E4 `: I7 D- c/ w
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/ ^$ t2 b' a6 z9 g- B) w
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% |$ e! E8 ~# l/ K" X3 s$ |
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make1 w6 [6 k5 h; x, p( `
the sivil servants jump with joy. s" B2 g, G7 Z2 d8 H* N$ \
$ P3 _5 {. Z; H) MThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
2 Y+ |; J8 L9 `9 V' lkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the9 z N. \8 }7 O/ R( V. H' G: I
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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! L% {% ^! {) G$ d0 S3 ~% H+ pIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to( k. J k/ U1 |" v- p" t
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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. g6 Y2 t8 B8 D2 p$ qAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
1 {4 k: g( V2 k7 p# b( m K& Adisgrasful and it should go away.
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8 d8 J- f) G. jBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% R8 u1 B+ G o+ H( m$ r! V9 w4 B
"z" and "w" with "v".% D" F: }1 q% X# R2 z' l
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and, U" x8 T1 c1 L% @0 n! I( k p+ L
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
. u2 L5 o, c: Iunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
& N; L5 ]: @+ U0 V( YUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze$ r5 o6 f' l3 D5 @" O) a
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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