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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- b7 T" ~1 r* _6 e4 f
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was* }0 p6 q% m/ K' ^' j! w
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0 g4 U" {2 z6 s1 [2 @' ^, g5 S+ Y! jAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
5 B% h c2 g: H# R7 ^7 E( `spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in K0 ?) N- x0 d8 g" W/ y
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".6 B* e0 c2 d) j- ~
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; `: W4 `' x+ l9 } j- E9 ~
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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; F) m7 [$ V9 j3 fThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: R( J8 O( ?- Q3 u- z9 C8 `troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
& {7 r, N3 j/ |9 n3 Zfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
- N1 j3 d, L) K4 Z Breach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always/ q) _7 s5 P- U, E$ V& w
ben a deterent to akurate speling.& [4 y7 l. W9 q, S
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 T; I. m# O6 @2 x& K
disgrasful and it should go away.% b" R6 a# s; M
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with& d+ O; E5 O& J# k- b1 C
"z" and "w" with "v".8 b; X0 k# @- ?3 A) l' I
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and/ h% Q0 H2 S: g5 B/ o% l
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 tu, b; v' C5 J- s
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.& [5 W8 \7 I; e' t
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze! q( [5 a4 j" B; }! n' `# h
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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