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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
8 V0 ^( b+ `. m; F& k( P6 V! bbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was9 h0 A# O( `4 Y" [5 `: N3 L
the other possibility.
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% H; @% e4 r, bAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English! W7 r$ d' v* W ^: T
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
$ A% p2 y; G1 ]" S) _plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"., h! ?2 C. }2 K2 a4 d
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
: `0 T& U# w/ _the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
9 `' Z5 O+ K- ^: G [$ V' N' Ikonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.) E( P& q4 z- M
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& N! y" T) e4 _6 U0 K- AThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the" x! b8 ]7 f4 ~0 ?/ A3 f1 F# V
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like9 d) n3 _) H) T$ y% H: Y
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
$ \, f! B( |$ U! f0 freach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.$ X/ q* T j! k" u, o! T) Z$ r
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& Q) W2 _5 |9 I+ E7 w& L+ u! R
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' ], `2 O- [( t% z. y& X6 Qdisgrasful and it should go away.
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: X" C' U, G9 y4 o# ^. `( }# tBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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( V3 a5 }/ O q7 Y5 Z5 {During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
9 W$ @; v2 [( ^& B/ ]6 rafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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/ T3 x u5 F2 c( n( G4 fZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
! ^* |4 ^' k& L" {" E$ _understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
7 T2 q A/ X* E7 L( u; x) _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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