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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will8 L. h" v7 x1 q6 f" y
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was x# p1 O f# H: p% P
the other possibility.
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' X6 [# A0 c E9 uAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
1 @: a$ @4 I S( [ Sspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
" P! y- K) H7 K p6 J1 Oplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".4 `/ R8 ?+ k" L4 m6 ]$ b3 ?3 D
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 p7 C7 f: ~7 s$ U4 x9 Y
the sivil servants jump with joy.- W1 \% F, a% x0 x% Q8 W* E
% o8 {7 e9 |# z1 nThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
0 |+ K: w2 p( o* [% e9 e4 Skonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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/ M' U5 C5 l; t: e6 `" U! C/ zThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the1 b# E: g+ o0 m2 ~+ l7 i8 N* G
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
1 g) N0 W$ S& I ?8 c( yfotograf 20% shorter.
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4 r- R2 s: f6 P+ r+ D8 ZIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# c T0 M0 P2 L0 g
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 ^2 _& @. o* D6 Q, E3 qben a deterent to akurate speling.
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9 s% D( Q2 y: cAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
! M( w7 e" L" [* o2 Q2 d' Qdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with8 y4 q& z* j3 X2 E, Z
"z" and "w" with "v".
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# ^% T$ k0 [0 V xDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
; z" S# t! | P! \1 F; j2 Z# X6 K: ^( pafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 D: [. n3 h* i2 E+ x! A# s g
0 S) n/ f9 h _8 {0 |2 c- ZZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
0 d" V' T/ \3 |5 X7 _3 Lunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
, e2 s. [! [# t7 ^$ z. ZUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze8 X) }0 s+ F% n% U1 r, E1 N
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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