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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
5 c3 g2 R: P4 a, Ube the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was3 e6 v) R2 [2 |, l: {
the other possibility.
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& j2 T2 ]9 [# F# r& a- sAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English; T' m6 z& [- S' L! U
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
5 m, t2 M/ q* U7 C& F; Splan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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! v2 G2 E. j3 a% k' lIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
1 ^* ]: n% C* m( r7 `3 mthe sivil servants jump with joy.1 x3 D4 ]0 k0 f3 L
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up5 S( c3 ^8 E/ N/ G
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.6 s% g; n. k I* |$ K' H
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
( ^0 R! _0 o& c# @ i* `troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like3 K$ {1 m% `* o# E; p
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to% A) ^7 _* _. J3 S' J" X5 r
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& a$ Y2 w% z; X: n# ]/ z
ben a deterent to akurate speling., g0 `1 S, E" r0 e; i0 p" ~
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
4 O) B! [* H/ ~/ F9 u# q( ?- v( ddisgrasful and it should go away.
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9 f& `! |$ P* X0 M0 P9 oBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# y T# R& f7 a% _
"z" and "w" with "v".# j- z) X$ j% `& _+ Z9 x
; s2 J. Z# G u% ?, C0 |During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: p1 {( m5 s. R- z( z! C
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$ w+ {7 {* R% H7 e* A9 B
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
* Z! C) \* j" h! t3 S8 t/ h2 JUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze5 J+ z4 F4 G# g8 G+ x
forst plas., p {9 T" H; R5 x
) `0 @0 W5 F, dIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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