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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
+ h" A$ H4 K* p; b Fbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
- ?/ u% y+ P3 ^% j& pthe other possibility.
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! E ^1 B5 p" h: g! c0 s6 gAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
& t! N6 T5 |3 }3 l+ ? w3 ^! d( hspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
/ ^# p" Z+ @3 {* Eplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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2 |2 e% L0 s0 ^( n' Z& n) QIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 \+ G! q% ^! l2 T' Y
the sivil servants jump with joy.- F7 }4 [/ O' h% [+ d- @# K
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up8 [4 V1 u2 v2 {! [+ w! R5 o
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.; ]) `6 Z, H l: ?
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 \. R! e3 O/ y6 w+ u2 A: Ctroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 k6 `3 J8 ?: Z& t& a6 }5 Hfotograf 20% shorter.7 c# s# E y/ f! w. c
, Z2 d! y9 N" g: B$ c" WIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to9 u$ P( ~! X0 h; @9 M
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.# p4 p; s4 s' C# Q0 l4 E( ^$ P2 @
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 p2 Q3 X3 N5 z
ben 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
: _- ^/ P: c; Q6 F$ a8 Q6 Odisgrasful and it should go away.7 `+ l: M4 Z0 C* B9 K+ p1 J* v
* Q2 u, E7 B, Y4 w# ?# WBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
; P! s% ^6 u2 a"z" and "w" with "v".. B9 _0 e. ~, e. Y, X
- v7 l) i3 n4 n' B! mDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
3 N# H% E) j2 ]( _. O, i9 L8 fafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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[9 P5 p: c9 |( `( n: U. T8 ?" L, ]Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
# J# o7 T8 k) p Ounderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ _. V% Z4 o v) p$ k a6 b
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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