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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 ^ w7 O! U$ a8 o- @1 E
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
* g) `$ N7 P, a( c9 ithe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 t8 ^. K' U( f' r4 H4 ~& aspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, ?! @4 }; j: \( z8 z) c
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- G! j" M: ?5 ?: P) z% m1 k
the sivil servants jump with joy.. Y+ M0 T* ]: B; C' Y) x- [1 }
8 }3 Q( F# }4 }, zThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up# F6 B9 J. x) T+ D+ r& f
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. N( f2 S1 S1 e
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- f+ L/ ~" k- ?5 L! E5 K2 k" T2 [There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
) }" r$ f* K9 E D. ^troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like0 _, z/ P7 |2 g0 ~* z
fotograf 20% shorter.2 f2 m; g' g) N+ }- g
! X6 P/ B% I/ ~2 U( L' aIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
$ c- U; c z/ b# f3 ]4 h# hreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
$ E6 F+ w5 V$ w! u4 c) `ben a deterent to akurate speling./ N6 F) [( [2 E4 Z; W: m
6 k% l# S1 d) ~5 C; ]1 b4 I+ d0 N) a- wAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is' P* @# m9 P" D6 J u+ t
disgrasful and it should go away.' Y& b( Z/ T6 ^: R8 _
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with" y+ ?) g! a: V) P/ X3 l' J# ?
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
/ w& O, _5 O' s& t, ^after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.% Z# _# s- t' x1 [$ b5 b! m. o3 r
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
4 u4 F9 L4 q8 [$ xunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
( f; F( I3 X$ ]# }, Z+ w. h7 GUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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# W) M8 a8 B2 x! HIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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