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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
9 L0 J0 [0 D" V! _% j9 F3 Ebe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
) Z' @! L6 J; m) S, i. `6 Ethe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English3 J9 R- D! d. F9 _
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
, e5 }: k9 j {2 c1 T R8 Cplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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3 X! Z0 }9 y2 }In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
. g& n, B8 g' p9 D% Y0 R* l$ hthe sivil servants jump with joy.; V3 p" H, |! l1 E. V
( {: n9 ^/ n3 [5 T7 B) uThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ r6 E' z, U |+ Bkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.6 L9 q) I9 I; h+ b% N1 m
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- r" g) `$ v$ D7 uThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
9 z. z# z2 g) X; j2 J! }, ]' x. d3 stroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like+ i! R8 z% Z9 p0 e! ~" o5 J
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
4 W5 K- H9 w+ D1 [4 y7 ]# Mreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.0 E6 b; z2 H7 `) h# a* U' @) h
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always2 w0 I% _4 u7 K1 f0 A* z
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' n8 I! s9 W! E; j' J- H1 Ddisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 g# H2 J2 X. ^; p
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
3 I) d. m8 C" a: ]after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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7 }2 Z3 z" ]8 w: v: u" ?' C1 ZZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
# Z: C+ [0 O: ^( U6 F& G6 yunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.& e; H8 ~( ~8 G" f7 \# A
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze& |& V; R. ]3 V: _# o e
forst plas.
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5 J( {. _6 X3 E/ x* N4 a$ XIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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