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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will. ?& U" T5 z/ Y3 _
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was* n8 w- S8 e) V: v+ A) E9 P
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 Q& d% I6 g4 u9 R
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in. [( i) E$ Y t7 m# p
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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# W1 X2 O) t# @In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 U: E$ j! H, m! A* r
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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# b+ e. O* s+ q/ SThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up6 h6 ^0 u3 H6 y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ c# O5 \4 @- O
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4 C& D, |; H2 ~, y9 JThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 _" A3 F. H, k# B# f
troublesome "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
# j- ^3 m* n, V; x9 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
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& T) A3 M- A! i$ uAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is/ H8 e9 c, k6 @( b' I
disgrasful and it should go away.7 X/ I: t: r" A
7 M2 T0 R1 s+ [2 n; f, QBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with2 c R0 P3 A* e& ~
"z" and "w" with "v".* a3 O5 u( ^$ j u0 q& `& g, W
! l D; n' M+ r2 d$ ?During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ | v) X) w1 N H# `& Jafter 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( U, ^& ~; N4 Z4 D& E2 S
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.5 p/ v# a2 @: _
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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