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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ g- d# t5 c$ xbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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% O3 T0 p% {. [! F- V! CAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
: y# \/ s; b+ R. Espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% Q5 S2 j0 P+ n, m
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make( p5 ` D' a+ p% M+ [5 f
the sivil servants jump with joy.3 H/ ^4 v: p+ |
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% y' M) S1 C! O" X3 i) x
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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$ }" y3 e/ f6 MThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
' i# K; p$ j0 G" B' s4 atroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like5 @" p" i0 [7 ^! `; N% ?
fotograf 20% shorter.
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" _2 i- q) a$ ?& E4 J) BIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
. @6 L0 J3 q& Y8 z. _reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.# [% h/ j. w$ E2 S
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
4 ]# D4 U: G" U4 Aben a deterent to akurate speling.
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6 e$ T( _0 Y6 `$ KAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is, V. r2 u6 s+ j
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
8 G: B J' T3 k& j! {1 x W"z" and "w" with "v".
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/ H( u% K; s @1 {; M7 l4 _' IDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 a6 g: q% Q, P$ L, W2 t( G5 {* Fafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. o% J/ _" B7 b' k1 d
- ~! j2 t7 @5 c. h. GZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
! M/ u, A) o, vunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
- O t; o6 v7 x. Z# ^- R5 M( cUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
x" B' U5 b" e: W# Y* d/ B; aforst plas.
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