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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' o9 t! s( Z- c+ d; k9 k! e* d& a
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was! e$ J& r7 X5 J( C. J
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6 F" e0 f8 d' g9 ]/ r* ?As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
$ v8 S( T3 m C9 Mspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 c2 I4 `6 L7 c5 y
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
9 d) y( x! C" q: m2 c" l2 Gthe sivil servants jump with joy.8 f h) {) m3 E6 O
! X8 h/ Q+ b! ^1 M! @The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; I( P: V/ A) L$ k6 ^
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
+ f. g J" y9 r P# Q, Etroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like0 ~) v0 a) z9 [/ O
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
5 R m C/ k" Ereach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: `% v' c6 Q D0 e
7 r6 j0 X V/ q7 d' [Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
( L5 w+ k6 h c8 Y' x* ]ben a deterent to akurate speling. u( ?( v7 O5 _9 Z1 P6 P
" E# L% {$ }1 U. E. tAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is8 v* R( U5 z0 F; R5 I( d6 e
disgrasful and it should go away.
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0 s" B8 }) j; v( bBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
8 n% Y6 R: a9 e K# n$ E' o, S( _"z" and "w" with "v".
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) P, v3 U( ]" n& }1 n2 C+ B9 q( `During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
; ~- ]) A" w) t/ _$ `5 Z; ^2 P* c; u2 wafter 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* e0 J3 K; L4 @' I
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.+ ?" j8 O8 [, @) E% Q6 U# ?. K
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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+ S$ ^5 M, R) G; |* yIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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