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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will, |* y( N* g2 ^* {
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was' K- V9 s* y8 t4 ?$ U8 S
the other possibility.5 \3 M+ T6 p# W5 Z B* W0 n- a+ e
2 s2 E* \- c* W) `4 h( P' x$ B/ YAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English/ d- F9 Q, }7 t _6 g
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in1 E2 t5 ^) f$ |! _8 ]9 Y
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"., i8 j1 b2 J/ @) ?: U
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make' L2 b% [1 q& Y+ U+ K7 c4 [: z0 b
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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. z9 T/ ]! X; x2 {: k7 V, G3 WThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up, A- i' L$ `+ {8 L3 T/ c5 ~
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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- S/ }1 \" Y" m, W8 H1 @8 _There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
0 ]0 m, t0 G# n. Y. n# Itroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 x5 [: T1 S# x" Y
fotograf 20% shorter.1 k+ B5 Z0 t0 E& b# q2 G) j6 k
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to& R I* m9 w3 z! |
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always1 G, O9 h; O1 Z# I' T
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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4 F' Q7 _/ B; ?; c" WAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is) ?' a3 m& O+ X( \; M" Q1 C5 E
disgrasful and it should go away.1 v0 Z" [0 B2 y! c+ M A
R6 m5 n$ [8 nBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with3 X2 t& {$ ^" m0 k8 N1 |
"z" and "w" with "v".
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8 b, A. R" p$ A8 m" [# oDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and1 \5 m/ E$ w- R/ x4 `& b6 Z6 X
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) p4 l- i T* s( F- _& Q& w
. r/ w0 k( Y' e; d0 kZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu4 t1 Y' z( N5 d
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
$ s0 c4 D8 ^, i9 n' j" FUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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& u6 U4 j0 V9 JIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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