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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
8 W+ P9 V" m4 }6 i8 Qbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was3 C& [ u# O+ O6 w0 P& B
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9 e, k6 e: `* w* |5 B1 OAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
1 M0 |) w8 u3 ]- P7 r, bspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% U% x+ f& q4 T/ `# H0 c8 ~% s
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 P$ u3 c# d% \5 u7 Q& O
the sivil servants jump with joy.! t0 s# T! E8 C* G6 a
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up9 H* }( p3 O/ z2 W% u! o
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.. N7 l) d7 l4 N5 E( O1 E
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; Z4 C1 q; d g$ u% e' QThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the5 o K* Z! ^4 p$ Z1 B
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like K' Z" W! P9 K; j$ f
fotograf 20% shorter.$ m- K) g/ V' ^8 X9 m9 x+ A& K8 n; x
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to( ^9 n+ ?# {! z
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
3 `" E7 t) E5 G( R) u9 `ben a deterent to akurate speling.6 E: b4 ]0 l9 }0 e7 R- {
" x; {, p( ?) u RAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
) v$ K, ^: X% A5 Q2 sdisgrasful and it should go away., [/ e! b7 l' d+ ~; R% W
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 @0 H5 ^1 R/ s. A$ H9 Y, h. Q# w
"z" and "w" with "v".1 g" i& b- K9 [
' \" T2 ^- v* x8 W. A# O q' ZDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
' M1 t2 R7 ?& O' g) aafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.0 k, I. ]: C2 `3 e: \
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu! h% L+ l6 L* y) `, h( B
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; w( e5 g/ N7 ^: q: VUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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B5 f/ n: D, q( @6 bIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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