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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ W/ }" }8 y( k% Z5 F/ P& n
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was7 X; _. s; Y- X2 t! I+ t; N8 I
the other possibility.# A, E& f! N/ b) y5 N- E
. `% s& X0 ]- l* ]As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English; c+ `& R2 y* z4 B9 r
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
0 y# E/ x% e( F7 M, E( r4 X+ Cplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 O! P0 Q4 A: [* U7 L3 C
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make$ v$ o; }8 V" K
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ `2 R, y: _+ g) A) Y) fkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
! _) J( a2 J" h9 l% u& O* ?troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like/ G( ~7 s1 g! c8 H
fotograf 20% shorter.
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8 |0 l$ X1 j! r- c' jIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to% ^: Y) p* Y% W- H
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.0 s9 B9 P4 n% d8 g
# E0 o0 W7 J% DGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
8 i& d ^, \" k& G# ]$ i0 {( Ydisgrasful and it should go away.8 S3 X. ?% X% u; E6 }7 F
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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( Z6 |7 x. A2 M* n0 {During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
9 s8 U! e( ~5 v; x7 c/ Dafter 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
: {! v7 d$ i" l+ W, B& ~% f* C) wunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
7 i1 e3 @8 }6 X" B4 W4 O/ AUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze8 M( t* B |1 Y6 J, q% g' h
forst plas.
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$ T/ [' t3 E& U ~If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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