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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will7 \' v" R, A S; H
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was3 A1 H0 y+ l( G: i- P) W, C
the other possibility.
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. ?8 h. \% S, y( O/ L$ DAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
; ~8 ^% }) j0 O4 W0 G# i* z1 q4 Cspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in7 D7 e0 H7 N: G3 V- D6 R
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".. i4 |- a6 J5 n+ Q; z
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 c, {# A5 K5 V) F) P2 P, F/ x
the sivil servants jump with joy.6 w5 R- D/ N& g5 _* y
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
: l8 L$ a: J4 J1 p5 j$ pkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the6 I1 k, p/ g8 x
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like. Q9 t! G$ o- |3 p" b
fotograf 20% shorter.6 _. ^1 \2 e4 c( {
" \/ v( E4 ?8 g, d) O) J* }) W: _In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
0 T5 F4 v! H7 P, K1 L( f' Vreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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" t2 C9 |; f: K kGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
0 } i9 U8 P/ d5 ], B- Tben a deterent to akurate speling.
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5 H4 k( W2 @' H& l& k4 @% F2 fAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
n' M+ z! R/ B" [disgrasful and it should go away.
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' I* v3 Y& u/ Z; ~* [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
2 r8 t5 u* W$ T! v/ }8 d9 j$ x$ _after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.+ j5 ~, ?+ |4 K; _. _& I1 J
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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