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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
( y4 X# l, b6 o3 Y( J* _* B' Hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was* ?* U5 O* [5 }1 P: a5 S
the other possibility.
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) B2 e- B }. ?' n1 ^9 p) GAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
0 j! }% H6 O/ ^+ R& G& Kspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- N# y) \3 T' E& c* g
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* ^; A) I6 `6 t1 w5 w5 P! O
the sivil servants jump with joy.+ x4 h+ |1 z' k. B( Y
/ O+ F" M3 ? L0 R' c8 L eThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
0 |! k' s6 ?& H6 M* `; H3 fkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. x$ ?( B, E# f8 w5 g
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 X7 y" P4 O8 k4 Gtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
% R* R7 t2 ~ `+ K8 u a# [fotograf 20% shorter.
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) C' K3 ]( v) \* h& KIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to% {2 M1 z, r" Y# a4 R8 K, I
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
: [8 H: x: Z% E# iben a deterent to akurate speling.7 U+ W$ ~$ i' P9 p* \
1 w6 A8 ]: {/ s8 k: |0 xAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is- i7 z5 X" p0 N8 ]* h
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with: {0 {4 V. s6 h9 }
"z" and "w" with "v".1 E7 {8 e+ C5 l1 X
& \- S, d M4 ZDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and2 v9 m/ b* J9 ^1 L# M
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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; ?+ Z" j1 u8 g# x: J$ q yZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
1 g. r' Q' e, D; J2 Eunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.; p. ~6 X3 \$ O+ ?
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 R( W3 V& C4 {5 o
forst plas.
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+ U1 V9 w9 s# \: L9 `# r9 jIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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