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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will# G6 I& a( @0 k* G
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
1 {. T$ ^8 T; p2 z# Hthe other possibility.: g/ c3 X3 `: G0 f U1 }4 `# u
* B, \) M) h( ]. d0 _As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
8 F* l: I# H6 P: u |% Vspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 ?- S5 c* G4 G5 U
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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1 { v; d1 w! c1 q LIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! r: o( a- U5 w: O4 r% M
the sivil servants jump with joy.; i- O+ _3 w6 w3 t# {; W
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up w$ {4 ~4 J' a/ [" c
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the9 ]$ W# D7 F7 b( l; H2 o! z
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like0 t* H4 m7 n6 @7 m* o9 m
fotograf 20% shorter.! z0 o/ \% e n! n$ [ {
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
* H) k; H9 y& O# w7 w* B3 T" \reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.) O# |: b- S) p' U& t3 F
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
. ^* W4 e2 X! U" vben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is) f: n% j9 n3 l& o9 Z; U9 O2 C" Z& t
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# I( G8 h. u# A
"z" and "w" with "v".# \ F5 e2 e4 U' N* E8 t& X
- G$ i- L' Z: o5 h( sDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and2 b; m- H7 c/ f5 ?9 D4 U
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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) |/ i3 I9 ]. gZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
- s9 X* L! [: ~understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 v% d. V! @( b0 j( E; Y& vUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 Q( t4 Z1 n, f7 Q Q
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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