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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will. o3 i2 J3 R2 Z, {; i/ J' |( N6 W) @
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
$ q- w9 q4 V- R8 g* Z! hthe other possibility.
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; a! T# O J$ c* kAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English- }2 }/ [! ]2 O: ^
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in7 G4 O. k# A M a
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".( t- S' z4 Q; K# E( M! s
5 C- ?" p. Y( o* EIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make) {+ Q8 t; i8 X7 ?9 f
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: c* [0 Q+ G; y( [7 N% f3 F
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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8 W# R0 ], p* u5 E, \% ~There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
- |1 u0 Y9 ^' B( g m! w3 ztroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
6 |( X8 h4 d# Wfotograf 20% shorter.* @: m8 w M* D2 I3 t
$ `! R/ x/ _' f, d) q. V6 l% U: PIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
% |6 v! s6 p$ U9 B! m% Z5 hreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.% @4 x, ?# J1 x* P7 v) a" w( O8 G
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 E" n3 Q% y4 N0 A1 Y9 B4 B
ben a deterent to akurate speling.% n0 P& C) \: E" x
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is+ T( b# Q9 ?( K: _# x
disgrasful and it should go away.
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1 H8 K3 K9 W* HBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with J: ^% v4 c$ ?% n$ Q) s) m
"z" and "w" with "v".0 @6 @2 Y" h: b0 [/ t4 ~4 {3 G
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and# Y4 c5 u1 o' ]3 V6 m* N3 n: @% A
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 P/ u6 Z$ m5 @# s
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
* p6 `2 ~# t, Q) K5 @understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
. n, L3 E: H$ z G3 |- \3 r. TUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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8 L' v7 k6 |2 S3 C7 KIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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