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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
8 r$ L& m: A. Z, fbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
8 s# H1 N1 y$ |' Ethe other possibility.6 e# F2 k( d; e2 L! h
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
; k- x) f$ d# nspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
( M) v3 e+ K/ o6 M' h0 Bplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".0 N) x5 U' {& h9 i7 e' z h: C
/ x+ F: p5 {$ w6 T+ i: eIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make ~3 [6 P2 S- f$ K* L: b
the sivil servants jump with joy.6 _+ w# e$ B9 W' b
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up7 k8 I& Y' G7 L; L2 {6 D) e z* p
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 U# X) d7 K/ b8 q; h
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) [7 M3 N; u/ l( L* E1 ]There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: \# e2 o4 N7 t4 k: itroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like$ R- Z7 n4 ^2 I. Z
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
7 a# X+ A- f% k' x# B) lreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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: E; ]# b& b$ x* pGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
/ [! t4 f$ S; E+ f( R- k6 Qben a deterent to akurate speling.
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/ W2 A1 g# I0 a: q$ U% R! KAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
% _+ {6 y4 w; L# j, Adisgrasful and it should go away.
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" }% M r$ A$ p9 gBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with, g: n2 G8 n* t' q0 j4 H. {1 V
"z" and "w" with "v".* T; }4 O9 f7 t/ d
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
+ Q: ^7 C& r; safter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 H- s& @ x: G( T" }
& y1 L4 V* D3 S2 c: _" Y. Y4 GZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
+ |5 S0 n7 ?3 q* runderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.: k5 p0 l `6 C! P! F2 C
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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