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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will1 w- X- a" L) t5 e5 E! P9 L
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was! ^! e5 e; ~3 t& b4 }
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English2 }) ^" Z9 E3 D
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
1 L* \6 s# e% i8 g1 C( @plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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/ F; s8 O s/ f: u/ u8 XIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make' v5 [& [- [. y" S
the sivil servants jump with joy.1 L5 k; N1 A& D! g3 A+ r$ k
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
% C! c2 a: T% _konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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( g: C2 }) | o# EThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
7 G8 ^7 {2 U% T( U0 |) ftroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like1 O G5 c9 B" x" _/ a/ Q
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to6 A. w# ~2 v+ V) V- ]# b$ V& X
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 \/ p# Q! h: e' I1 M
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always) Y7 G/ ^( R; X$ Z
ben a deterent to akurate speling.& T! ]; H3 k$ ^0 R, k, @% p6 I
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
1 T, s3 I. A( Fdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
# G* D% m! e! q1 u, ]+ K3 Fafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.& O$ q- B8 _, o. i
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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