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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
) V1 X$ K3 ?( u: P n' Hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" }3 x( _# D, [$ X* h& R2 \
the other possibility.
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+ p5 [' b. j9 Q% n- S* xAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English1 _6 L9 c6 B7 U' m
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in3 I& m! T7 m( U* U
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ c, A: |7 ?, C0 W8 F" X
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up( B7 p: P0 c( q9 W. }2 b
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 V1 {1 J8 D4 `2 |. y0 I4 Q) A7 ]% `
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the H$ h/ ^2 ]# |- P
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like6 Y* T0 I4 t$ G- G7 U- C$ l
fotograf 20% shorter.# c9 `5 Y/ _: F4 p5 b* _0 k& m' {; S7 }
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) u0 f& T1 B1 ?) L6 J5 A
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.$ ^; F j5 u2 L
3 |1 z* Z0 O! r- FGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! n* `* [0 W/ I; [
ben a deterent to akurate speling.- H1 h \, D2 D. u
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is/ x3 n# k, i; m0 a& k
disgrasful and it should go away.
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% G$ Z4 E- A6 n" H6 A1 E9 l* kBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with' k) d3 C% f' q2 O
"z" and "w" with "v".6 M/ h5 I8 T2 `4 a$ e
4 Y9 {8 v+ t: [- D1 `3 C$ ~4 G" k! sDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and |/ y& t# I4 N& M/ E
after 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$ ^ P& ]: z7 t9 z' A, {
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.9 f" ~' B/ \! I+ I3 }" ]; f9 D6 J
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze& C. _' `1 a+ }$ y& c" d
forst plas.! t+ ^& v, M: Q* _" B- F
/ l0 S U7 B: @7 w' v% z3 vIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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