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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
- m: _9 f4 x7 B: |! r2 m" g4 pbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was. W2 T* H. D1 N" v" @; w* d
the other possibility.( y: H t `4 [" Q7 G) k& f I
- M5 j/ a3 [3 f0 t1 iAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
( L6 ]) J) `' e$ Tspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, a3 G+ B: F& Z+ X4 Z! L
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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, X4 C+ W7 k5 f2 H3 F& TIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
! Y( v( _# i4 ?9 T+ u/ \the sivil servants jump with joy.
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; w4 u2 w% h4 C% }. l5 i$ [5 Q4 @The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
& C7 J' U7 Z& f/ L9 Kkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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3 S. B! w- c# J3 \There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the- X+ N* A4 X' e: N, H
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! J& A3 J, j# }, P
fotograf 20% shorter./ G$ c; m6 v# J. t) i- \+ f
! Y' l. Z% k9 b: r9 c4 kIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to' V q5 R; C7 j' J0 P$ R
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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. G3 N! s# D* F8 ~2 D$ \& g7 lGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- a% j$ A$ Q6 x
ben a deterent to akurate speling.! `# j* g% ~. I0 r$ D1 d
1 \. r: K: t4 PAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
9 P- k7 S) a1 T- E3 |( l6 R! H4 idisgrasful and it should go away.
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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
. F4 {" R$ D' A' M; Cafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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F9 s( j/ A" h/ W- t7 [Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
: ~2 N8 ~/ C9 x6 |8 Bunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru./ z: ~" A. s! E4 F$ J5 o
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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