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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
6 f) L; o; A* j0 l; Y6 o6 |be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was! K+ I: S" |, e
the other possibility.: c6 B* k7 ?" r# z! Y" R5 y
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
; a" ^( {; \- w# t# r" k2 Y' e" Q& Z+ |spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 H* B& T+ y2 w d6 Y3 ], j1 T+ j
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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' s8 b! ^. h3 k* V4 {In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
$ y7 p* N0 M/ Y5 sthe sivil servants jump with joy.( {1 w- m; x( ^9 [' w
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
7 q; y8 ^* v4 ] B" Y1 Q& }konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
0 O2 Y/ N3 W6 g: x/ H1 M7 S! _1 atroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 {5 j9 c3 y* P% P6 v
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
2 N; I" L1 A/ }! ^! ]reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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/ A. V5 j6 p2 G/ [/ m# V. \Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
. \* u- r3 |; R2 E- vben 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
+ J1 C3 ^1 H5 y8 Rdisgrasful and it should go away.) T* W7 F$ k3 b$ F
- z. g4 l0 L1 e3 W" \. v- }By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with" {, W( K% ^; R- T# i5 W' e
"z" and "w" with "v".
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) Z: n* r0 N' GDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and ?0 g d. j q& b
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu8 U$ {3 }2 w) `
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.+ ]" F6 M" G7 }6 K, w4 k! s+ ]: p
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze. V5 M% a9 [. m, z, R
forst plas.
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1 V; l& D9 `2 Y3 q* a9 Z7 g2 BIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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