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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ c# \7 |; ?& }
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
0 s$ U: i" c5 u' A! R; I7 ithe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English9 j q. l0 D. F- l
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
7 J2 ~7 m9 q \1 w$ `plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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4 y3 q' u" L! ?- @/ g, kIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
( A/ \9 H0 ]# O# sthe sivil servants jump with joy.3 ^; g* \6 w0 ~. X* ~; _( j9 Y
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up5 |6 |" j. F6 x k
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.1 _+ H( J9 \1 B8 ~
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
9 y; L3 } }! h; Y: ~- ltroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. T& f& s+ X: X( p% J4 X; E
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% Q9 B* z6 r7 |; O8 Q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.2 C$ b4 t% G. R3 L
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is5 t7 l3 o! n, x2 X9 n( u6 R
disgrasful and it should go away.: `5 U0 `+ ^1 K5 S! R2 X
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with* M6 @+ Y- T1 s
"z" and "w" with "v".
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$ s, [ z5 J" y% ~During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and1 l# _) x; d( v' b2 }6 D; a
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.2 o$ X; K1 A0 I- X
) X- F3 `+ F- H# RZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. H( b' O% ?/ vunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; ^3 X- t! E+ BUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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; C1 l& V. f6 @8 UIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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