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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
6 `2 E: v4 k, ?3 I" \' Bbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
4 H' R9 I1 u) U1 r, }0 Dthe other possibility.
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& G" f! n5 |1 ?4 Q+ C% Q' Y }/ `As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English3 x9 X% J' j: p
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
$ C4 x$ c! h+ N; Cplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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% V P- M; G3 R* j4 a6 p( eIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 J4 k, V1 l& L6 R5 |5 m p
the sivil servants jump with joy.# H( E$ {( _% \0 ]3 H3 w
' y9 Z+ b6 p5 P0 `The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
, `; Y8 }: A7 z3 `) mkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.' X7 u, u4 O5 `- Y* c8 L# r
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the$ k4 I# q. x# Y3 g% w2 p5 m
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
2 R5 q* H/ K- F& `0 preach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments 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
& I+ K5 f+ Z& D, ydisgrasful and it should go away.
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7 c+ g2 d& U# y& E, A9 m: _By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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9 w! c2 g% s. a. L7 l5 fDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 u3 e/ w8 L3 K, K- v
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 `8 ^1 C5 W5 g
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu% C+ N( K6 M, R5 l. w
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
( m* C5 \7 z! [; Z1 o- P4 sUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze. }' X( E/ j$ g4 v& v' G0 L
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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