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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will( \# B) M6 r. q }& o' s( U) X2 c
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was0 v i0 p& i3 y
the other possibility.
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|; ]% B' v3 X T/ s0 S: ^3 qAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English7 n0 p o0 I9 ?+ j7 o! ^
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ M1 Q# g7 q. z5 |; x# b0 E
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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/ \: F- x! y, K; e3 ~" m) EIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
3 }4 p( D, x4 n3 \the sivil servants jump with joy.& i! p8 l4 b6 F% t. L" [
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up7 V$ l l) S, H
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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; L6 R( e- J" a7 [! gThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; c1 [+ c) E* h1 M* I" Ttroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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5 Q2 [" b& q' w# {: k: eIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
$ f- B; T" q% B I/ u, ~4 w) Z" yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.# `1 c: B! A5 s' p8 k4 f, o' @
2 C& L0 m. U4 q7 G+ K* u! F# kGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- R$ L( V* t3 d( u+ I% o
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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1 o, _. u& a5 |& O# Q! xAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is! ~/ m: {/ F; D* z% ]7 N" \
disgrasful and it should go away.1 E0 j: t5 D) S: a' H
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with$ M" Z- k5 G3 d: @9 v
"z" and "w" with "v".9 l0 ^) \( u' e; f7 ~/ Y
5 T, H# [' @+ ~6 u9 SDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and, @$ H- z; q) ]9 ^' m5 _6 d
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
3 f8 Y( n4 k( i' t. U1 m/ a) W% Uunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Q5 T) T# ?$ W& [/ [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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