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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will6 ?: k8 Q/ L1 v) R3 `) Q
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
: Q3 P# i: Q9 athe other possibility.5 P4 \! K' _+ Q0 \' W4 W
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. V2 e1 C% `' I2 x+ U* j
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in7 w5 `0 [; R0 w& r4 T ~4 i
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish". _, l5 Q" b, X! G" Q; e
+ k |8 D1 |, k% Z% L8 J0 aIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make6 G$ q7 y9 O; S3 [8 e
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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" N* P" C' l4 Q. h# ]The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up9 [1 ]/ i) M! R1 I" j6 }) W8 C8 Y( r
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: b# Y9 s1 q1 o- _; H. r
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2 F; V5 e& Q1 A* m$ Y1 QThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the! Y1 c& `8 `! |: ^9 A& T
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
- ?1 D' D, g% F9 Y8 ~fotograf 20% shorter.
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0 ~. C1 p* M8 t* R' Y! n( IIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 N+ R" C( r+ Ureach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible." M1 _1 t. D7 _' e& [
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# g# m2 m7 ~+ C
ben a deterent to akurate speling.7 b; ^: Q: k% Y/ g8 A
4 m2 m2 F8 p+ W9 Y- qAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is# M/ m% u7 s6 C6 O5 r2 [
disgrasful and it should go away.# l$ L+ M. Q, q7 s$ u( U
; @; m6 f/ \% W! Z6 U/ D) `By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with. m# c, D. d& a+ Z0 E$ ~
"z" and "w" with "v".+ w6 p' T6 o- i0 ^
$ Q0 e: L; M9 t' ?4 `During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
8 S0 S# {+ E& Z D. B9 Aafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.% z/ t6 E" O5 Z& h" r5 `: B
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu# n I6 ]' N7 I6 l, g( Q8 s
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
q/ e* R0 `6 G$ ~9 _Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze+ P b8 i$ ]. H- W% B" K
forst plas.
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! w5 q; U- G' L3 @* _8 b9 a3 BIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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