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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will& C- S! I' v; e- \. {& v" D
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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; b: G9 K- ]- w% `As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English" \+ [ l% R' U* N6 q2 Q
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 V& W( V/ k8 R1 W) w- H
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. n3 x/ v5 G1 v: W3 C8 ^
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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4 T% s: D. L# ]. h" l8 CThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% w4 h# g# k5 r3 t/ A( o
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: d8 X& p* N2 ]. s# c$ T
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# W* G% Z5 Q! J3 w$ |There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 R& u. O1 {( ?) F+ F- F. J& ytroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; b, M9 |3 W6 X' R* j4 {' X
fotograf 20% shorter.0 V. |/ ?, v$ i6 [
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to2 m: F, v0 i4 p- M: r$ S- d7 f, I
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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; S/ W c4 ]) U( f% q, R7 O- tGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: `" [, r4 P- g* g( t) F* D7 Q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.) |% b7 [5 _ I. K/ u
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is a! a. [1 _& w& V8 Y7 a2 L2 x& \3 e% S
disgrasful and it should go away.8 g, g0 H. O" l# h8 |
/ W. g( @. D; @7 wBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 I8 F2 z& I! _# S' L' y- h
"z" and "w" with "v".' L: r3 z2 \. I, V- ]& R
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
& \* a4 J, W" \1 c2 l/ C6 a) [after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl." v% M+ a% G, U2 i5 p& f9 C
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& ~- i6 J( o$ P$ Zunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru./ p: b' ^8 v0 b
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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8 B# M* `7 x$ N- e5 G8 A7 bIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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