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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
6 |0 m$ s3 C, @/ J% ~+ Hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" ~# W3 y$ q% z: [ v5 K4 h7 F
the other possibility.9 O1 k" G! n! [. B
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English G5 I7 \9 x! t' o. y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
5 _* O# u5 V6 p2 B0 j8 H8 t+ qplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% m3 ~. E, @% k+ p0 F
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make+ C' R6 _! {6 O/ g( c+ O
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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9 x' W# O! l4 @" w% p4 W" BThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up3 s. c) N" p' E# C# ~
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; |9 ~0 I& F9 o1 }3 wtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, C' [ h& c) g" [% x; vfotograf 20% shorter.) E8 Q, [4 Y6 L: f9 q1 ]5 r
+ H% `! L c; x- GIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. p* r/ s6 z6 C% `; B
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 {0 G; W5 Y3 d' Z; u
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always. c: R6 J. l$ O$ H: |. x
ben a deterent to akurate speling.& y, i+ v$ N" ]3 J% W7 W p
( N% ?! c: A$ i# o5 k7 ?Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is- T# }; w% c: A6 P! M) J
disgrasful and it should go away.
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% c# ^" P. y2 s3 S' ~1 CBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
+ F) k- K4 ]; I# J% e"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
+ B" v7 a* U5 K) lafter 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
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze! o& D' o6 O- @* V! N
forst plas.
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# ^% Z$ a" `5 j$ }. Y# xIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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