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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ |% Q4 U$ n6 L+ j% f: Mbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" Q1 L) _" P5 {5 D& U5 J S
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English, a& \0 D8 h$ W v9 z0 r: m
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in7 u1 ]6 @9 [+ y" t" L
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) m: T# l* c" b' f; x. C, f4 R
the sivil servants jump with joy.$ u1 y4 f4 l8 d4 {
}- R. U$ _% B; B+ UThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
! }, @1 G/ `" s; e* R4 Jkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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! U8 U* W6 _* j* e8 TThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
7 D5 T' d5 K* K$ y0 S! rtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, W# j, V" J2 g- |$ }" _fotograf 20% shorter.1 D3 P9 J4 `% W& J# a% ~1 x& w
! R0 w) t3 y7 K) Y: ?: m) `In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
( q1 L& |0 [4 D' J# breach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
, f; L. g! q- I% n% q+ o& g8 \ben a deterent to akurate speling.( R* l* h3 C' S% p: l+ ?" y
, Y; o0 e) i' W. n) K2 v9 c7 WAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is7 n2 S% c2 @- I7 a2 s
disgrasful and it should go away.) j) o; p( {. ?: K) ^; G, G
$ M4 i3 t$ a% V8 d6 H* i5 d6 { R; wBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with/ _0 r {7 Y6 x$ {( E- x; E
"z" and "w" with "v".) i& k3 \( ]7 N1 f# J' G" H7 e
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and2 W/ `# K3 B4 x% c, S! d0 o. z9 y# @
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.' G2 A: i) {. n8 o
) I0 B( n' n* {Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
: H* }/ o* a1 s4 Xunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% n, D5 Z; L* i% y
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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a. l5 {( C% h& wIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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