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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will7 j' s$ ~- A8 J- {- T
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was7 @: S: r$ x; n I# b/ p+ }2 K
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English G& x) O/ |8 G# ^% [
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
+ [5 X8 M$ p4 @4 T0 dplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".2 t+ W/ ~9 l/ ^7 E" m5 E4 g$ s) F
# C3 L6 c" f# mIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
& w3 b! V5 g7 F, H7 @the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up, ]4 C7 y3 w$ ]7 r* W8 y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 p! V; ~" S) J) Ztroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like/ S; J7 K' ?/ a) w0 H3 _* G: j" m
fotograf 20% shorter.
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% \% }7 S9 N* P5 H9 Z: FIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to! p) h9 o* l3 k/ r# i
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.# O7 M; \- P* r& X; g: {
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always, b5 o% ]. Q1 A8 `% ~4 Y' T; M9 |
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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' ~* ^6 s1 t* `' d, Q! P( YAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
) T( @8 Z5 c9 [' X6 G: V- Ldisgrasful and it should go away.
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1 G# O3 t1 E$ _: K% CBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
# X0 K9 U0 Z$ |6 s"z" and "w" with "v".
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h/ D U- E! _! B1 d4 qDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
' U; f' _/ a0 ]. W/ u5 hafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) M% N! q$ L6 P: Q! i. Y
5 `' o c9 Z8 F6 F3 v }& ZZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu# \1 }1 R: H g, B2 e
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
_& c! h4 X, Q; c4 ]8 \Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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% G$ l5 |. g6 ]2 j. [1 p1 FIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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