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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will) q$ m" x! v7 ^- Y7 Y7 d K% b' k
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was1 z/ M0 x6 r* N. D3 v
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
s5 m7 G& Y+ ?, Zspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 o5 t! n) d1 P
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" e4 U# d: P, M) v F$ e" d1 W
the sivil servants jump with joy.8 T0 f+ V, S) a1 s8 O- |/ @
! u7 M( N+ g" S( g1 s- BThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up9 G8 ?9 s+ {0 j
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* L: Z2 Y M7 n7 ^. a
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the6 ~6 m, L% ]7 l) a7 n: m( F
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to$ E' j3 G1 u; O) Z5 z- ^- M3 ?
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.' m1 H+ v; U O* Q- e% B
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always/ [" W0 V' q8 F+ _
ben a deterent to akurate speling., W2 o" Q) _4 g6 o. `+ f* P$ p
/ b. D, Q7 w( a: Y, k% Y& pAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 F5 s: P, W9 V3 h- E" h
disgrasful and it should go away. M; {2 `. O' D' {9 w3 w
& R5 E7 j, W, ?) bBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with4 P" h5 G+ Q+ [1 Y% n T' C, l
"z" and "w" with "v".
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9 q: E9 m4 f( l6 [' NDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
" P' b5 Q8 i) j5 g9 C, V) Hafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.5 d6 s8 u0 ~* H" C: z. ?
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
) d- v+ B6 E3 I }. X# zunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.0 n B) F$ Z- Q. }: ]: B- z
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 E# j9 R7 M+ l D
forst plas.
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8 o/ ^! c8 E3 @# O# m" q" X- `If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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