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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
: z4 h: }. t: Bbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was9 I* R* q/ G/ }
the other possibility.* U8 M2 B4 b* e
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
# d, o' e# N6 T' r4 Fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in: `7 n7 }3 l8 o9 c8 _
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".& L U* }3 \: ~
, v. K# H% @( n0 `2 RIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
% ?) x6 `; A$ o: [) G: O) Z! {the sivil servants jump with joy.& a0 |( s; w4 A8 z9 S
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
: C/ v: \. `/ {# dkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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' n! l& A3 |0 h7 WThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the8 z" n; k( F* @ f/ c* F8 P
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
" |* M$ u- C& B. G8 b& Dfotograf 20% shorter.
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# g- \! d/ X# B" R2 `; W* BIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
S! r8 e9 ]5 f+ p: K9 Yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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! \+ b! L% e) Y8 e) aGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' H, ` Y; R3 U& P. Odisgrasful and it should go away.& P# q; n1 M% n5 ~
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
& s' V, [5 b% U/ bafter 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, ^8 U- C* t& S0 U8 _+ a
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.! @6 U& N5 _* [
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze+ \# _3 P% F" m
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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