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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
/ h- r- t; N8 p. L7 e2 ?/ cbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
9 l( O3 y3 |* u J3 athe other possibility.
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$ ? B4 u$ {' ?9 r: i, T; zAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English; L3 g" R/ ? G9 W. K$ g$ D
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
8 y/ c; ~6 |1 k& _plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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0 i; ]0 e% ]! X; b1 h) Y& r/ OIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
! l7 H/ u, |# n( p% e7 ?% n1 Vthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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/ {1 r+ Z3 ]& t3 o; _0 j9 IThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
( ~2 E0 S7 {" P5 Akonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ ^9 t- T, d% s/ |3 v- C3 E
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the* B. x" w x0 W8 H( y- t
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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0 w5 f4 f$ `& J; l3 aIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
, ]/ t, }- @$ n: ~0 E0 D7 @, f+ L: Jreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 C; x+ D3 [, u3 D8 v
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
' _6 E. U6 u9 i& K7 d# N' nben a deterent to akurate speling.4 W) q7 @4 R3 d' n" e% B9 N& [
- Z+ s+ O5 |2 I* ?2 E2 pAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
# l* C2 @ p# }" ?* ?disgrasful and it should go away.
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9 \! e# Y7 o! z3 w/ ?2 IBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
5 F' e$ _: u& P0 \+ q7 h2 ?"z" and "w" with "v".: N* ^. t/ [& ^6 K% E5 t
$ A, d' K) ?: D6 @During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 g# G& `5 Y8 c5 \) s' aafter 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 tu6 D1 N% V# {, m2 n
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
6 w. H+ w) K" z8 P- a/ qUnd 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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