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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
4 W8 t7 y+ l7 N2 K8 x2 @' Z8 ?. obe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
9 D' a7 W# I$ L/ F- Kthe other possibility.( x* N. a6 }8 ], L3 z! E
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
6 D4 b/ I1 g0 J; Z3 Q" a9 J0 Uspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
/ q' _- b$ u) zplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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( p5 F b, R) |; x, X( B) NIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make$ M$ L6 [! O5 m0 P
the sivil servants jump with joy." S$ i: U7 Q6 S+ S8 c1 v% j: c- w- ?
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
. D; v* Y, X, e( [; [4 skonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
( Q8 R* ?8 H: W5 R# y% B% Ztroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
5 w5 B4 ~* {9 p8 }fotograf 20% shorter.
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7 y# j" N. L" BIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ ~, K- D: F% a6 Qreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.( j3 l& ~) Z3 `7 `+ U$ }$ t
: [6 p2 {$ w, c! d2 w+ QGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- H4 d* a! J2 S& I9 }, C
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
; N/ k! j. d* ]disgrasful and it should go away.
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7 v3 x5 T8 i1 A9 ]! i. J EBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ ^3 F8 F" q( X6 P7 I
"z" and "w" with "v".
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1 Z" B+ W v0 E z% U2 U- k7 FDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and9 h# u. ?/ {+ l
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.$ B7 b* ^" f7 g+ B; y7 l) a
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu! X: T9 S3 n* m- u' W
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
1 y- I6 Z& q* A; V; I" X0 Q1 [* DUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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- t& k* y e- S7 M: tIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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