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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will" `& F. t5 m) E, y6 j
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
& o# g) N# x2 }the other possibility.
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9 X, B" d6 i9 T, x/ a+ t' f, EAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
' t3 `, T- a8 Fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
% o3 c! Q, x$ g# Q: vplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- a" G4 ^: h. u1 c- {, \
! z: N5 I0 d9 B. D$ |/ {, x2 Y# r- |In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make, B* u# \; d& Z. e, K2 U
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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+ e" W' l/ O& Y- L; ]6 uThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% l0 A; i5 j" S: d% j
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.# Y4 u% d% Y, I% \ t
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& y$ H' [# F# E6 A& u
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like8 ~% V \" k5 w% `; J" L1 e1 q( f: M
fotograf 20% shorter., E* G7 r6 I. j
1 G7 h* \! ^' DIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
2 k# k5 d* O5 G; I% M3 P5 j+ _reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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" L0 E) ]0 S+ @+ N0 p: A) b* |Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
- m( l1 h# r! A) P: m; Nben 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
2 H" S2 f4 u, w0 p( Hdisgrasful and it should go away.
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3 j4 ^( y% X& t8 sBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with' i3 F% o# L/ q, \& v
"z" and "w" with "v".7 W; G3 Z7 x Z! P0 r
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and6 b; ?2 C" E/ T. V. N z h2 h. ~' [
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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# j' I2 p4 C) N$ }( t$ qZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
4 K' @# A8 C1 q @6 |understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ w" m6 d6 I; F x" e5 t# }
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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' z" X% {) q! v$ [! |If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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