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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ g: ]. W* B+ J% L3 ~5 J
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was3 }+ \9 Q' S+ O9 B5 V- @( {
the other possibility.
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- X" `* g$ _7 ~/ R$ ?% EAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
7 n6 d& Z/ r, f0 {8 bspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in( w9 f( |( r. K I2 V
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".1 c3 f/ J: b F" ]; t1 g) l: Z
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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& Q8 {8 D7 g) y5 e# m& PThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up, q1 F9 @) s i* ]5 {: R* i
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
* E; p/ h3 ~& F) `4 T! @troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like+ _3 ~1 C% [. a8 |+ z
fotograf 20% shorter.& y# m1 S- P: y9 i
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
7 B4 n- Q& n$ ^& L; ^7 k) qreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.7 |! u5 s5 o" }7 U* L/ P
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
8 g, q/ q2 H8 y; iben a deterent to akurate speling.
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- \; k+ b8 e& _& B# ]3 fAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is6 }+ W! T- p4 Z" J2 L% ?! R
disgrasful and it should go away.) f4 z' Z; y6 M$ v
" ^7 k( e+ ?- w/ B: ]! R9 DBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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; O% Z0 V4 j, T2 L3 @* ]7 dDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and# F3 F- ~) Q6 t
after 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! o" R _2 e+ [1 _4 t1 }
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
, l6 y: |6 P+ B1 V5 v1 WUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 S8 K* m8 I8 G6 E6 @6 C
forst plas.
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^. k& v4 I e* `- p$ e+ y3 {) t3 r; fIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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