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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
9 }, W3 m1 g. i0 s* dbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was) @$ A/ X# p3 f
the other possibility.
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7 B3 _5 e; }/ V' g8 @- R* UAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English n9 T* F& d4 O! D* P7 n
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
8 ]: f2 d! L N7 A2 ?plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 r5 z' |# F; I; a7 d5 [3 @: {
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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/ c" h. v" \ X9 x5 `The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
, I. x' {9 t! f9 Okonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.8 i6 Y8 L/ H$ G' M1 W# ]; x' A# a
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# V! B9 s/ I1 E1 k4 Q" q* LThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the0 ?5 f, ~, r! `* d9 w
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
' P$ W) R6 g- H& b% d& ffotograf 20% shorter.8 [, q2 x r& F
$ Q. F0 E9 R2 \1 Z0 AIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 J; B/ t4 ]1 sreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* r/ p+ a, n3 _0 c
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! U+ e# B6 W0 h0 O0 V6 _4 B; m
ben a deterent to akurate speling.9 ^3 J7 s. [+ `# }, {% h, C# {
" |; z8 d: t+ MAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
- j# B) }. ?+ T# ?" h2 H6 Cdisgrasful and it should go away.& C+ p$ z# S3 H& f! l1 h
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with& j s0 U- i! w% F4 k
"z" and "w" with "v".
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* u6 I3 k- `/ ~% zDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and0 E' o" |5 v6 i
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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8 n) n# {5 f$ D% L* {. xZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu& t- p$ U. y# c6 U2 \# |$ Y' E$ s
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.; ^' ^0 E# ~7 t2 l T8 k* |8 [
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze* r- l* `+ \2 ]* P
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) l* k) h4 D& C4 o# x" q) i+ \1 Q% iIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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