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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
m) X# U1 @* [( xbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# l6 T: A1 B/ S, E/ G N0 D+ ^
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
. r% F/ [% Z, r6 F8 mspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
. q: [ T( w5 t" i$ c9 rplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- q* I( w+ Z- q" h
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make- ~/ H) A# O- ~5 j5 w
the sivil servants jump with joy.% M- |0 r4 t* j+ k4 R) W9 u
. ^) y$ [3 z( \4 o- |The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up. _8 u" B+ [, ^8 t4 M
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.6 q) v- n) f% U0 r; x
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# r: x; W) e' m& r9 b u5 E6 q
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like) B; }8 Y K& g
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to; d0 A$ E/ U2 w l+ n
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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) d4 W& u) r3 R4 ^Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always h9 T/ @8 k3 J, ?- y' F8 O
ben a deterent to akurate speling.1 t$ D4 @2 G; c7 Y# V
, P* [7 B! f: K, ^: z- X4 OAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
: X3 y" G: Q) y) V+ qdisgrasful and it should go away.1 K2 s8 m5 b8 B+ `7 i' }% Q
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with/ M' a t6 ?8 u: t) F! y1 W4 @9 |
"z" and "w" with "v".- e/ Z; T; P8 t: s: v' R# c
# t: @2 j+ Q. b$ P: o' eDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
/ J- q P: t% q3 `) t/ N3 W6 ^$ K, h1 Gafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.. `7 D: ]; W; z& O8 [! K, J
+ a( k( N+ l H, U8 K* \9 mZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu3 S& _! X& s5 C N5 E; f# b! I
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. r& P" S" ?1 @; F, t; E8 `3 h
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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( M6 c2 Q4 r. p) ZIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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