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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' o j4 Z# [; h9 t
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was( m9 i- \$ W$ |' S& ^* U$ V
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English& y; N+ }: c: Q, z+ a6 h# Y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, O" ]5 A2 u6 @8 d) C# L% g* M7 L
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make9 X! d3 @* W+ W8 |3 C) S
the sivil servants jump with joy.2 q0 p [; @0 w2 d
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
/ k+ k+ T8 m; H) ]! hkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the8 [! p" J0 |6 c l/ f; ^& |5 b
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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) H# @/ L0 @- l( w( R; Z& XIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to( l1 V7 L4 Z* R) ]- M
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 I; S2 X; A4 E9 w2 G* T0 l# s' f) S
/ M: z( |: ]+ g+ Y% cGovernments 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 is2 e1 p; s9 @3 D8 t% {0 N
disgrasful and it should go away.
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2 j9 K4 h+ a, }9 a" \) PBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with0 v+ x( ?# T( `+ C6 F) I
"z" and "w" with "v".
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6 x# Z7 }* e2 K1 ?During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ Y( _3 ~- j: V( Y" ?* Safter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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8 Y( `/ ]) L3 f! Q! T9 h! BZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
9 y/ B1 }7 {: dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
( j+ n3 b# f `5 u% o5 yUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze) o7 [# b9 W( Q# d3 S
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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