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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
( X" x- _3 y. C) pbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was7 t6 x, g4 W. s! m$ i
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% p G- r' p8 ^" b9 S
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in0 n1 m7 G3 u5 n @) l
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".0 L0 E' q6 O6 h& E. I; c/ y) e+ D, q
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make; ?& E# w/ Y3 F: J6 P
the sivil servants jump with joy.+ A& U- C& ]! e4 J
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up, P2 A- |: ?$ c8 Y7 e+ d
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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4 N7 X+ s0 g+ m4 }9 b0 R$ [& O* oThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
E; ]. F, C( ctroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; ~; E& S+ j! i4 M" P/ ?
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to% b6 M" U4 ~: p1 h: {( U
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: B O+ t c% R* U8 n2 y
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always M$ d1 w, b' o
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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- z$ @' a6 s/ aAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
) y7 P7 a/ ]+ V7 q3 b$ L5 K7 ]disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 ]8 I; a$ u) S9 \( W
"z" and "w" with "v".+ w( a. J+ s8 R2 `2 O) P
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
2 X# e- \/ R, m+ vafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.0 t' q- Z. l* A j/ C# P
3 s# c: }3 I* L6 `0 q" Q' V% \, `Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
( N' f K( Z' f! x- g5 o5 wunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
) W' T7 g$ c, [6 \3 U# ?$ qUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze; n5 Y& g; y$ H z0 n9 ~
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1 x, a7 Z+ r3 i5 EIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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