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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, P! Q0 x* t9 N, [be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
4 e1 x5 J$ Z7 _4 u$ Uthe other possibility.
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/ C2 q1 Q0 H4 s% M3 ]- _1 UAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English1 O" c" u- \, L0 f0 o4 J
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in+ }3 U1 E# B3 ^1 T) o0 J
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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$ ^- w& D3 A$ j* w# L* MIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
! c# I% ]# X. d, l1 n4 \5 hthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ d0 I- W" y& K0 s. L! d
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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+ [0 p% ^4 {1 X% H2 P' {) P# l- gThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
3 V) T& ]5 p1 |4 v2 u+ w4 S" ? |) Vtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like- a; p% X' w& Y& a
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 P5 R/ E1 O2 }reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
" X( D* C9 H2 S! |ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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' E, ^0 F% k% _+ s3 [$ ~3 P1 Z/ lAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 z, c) x7 W( g A4 O" K- W
disgrasful and it should go away.
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" b6 V! ]$ y4 b! j0 w: EBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
9 j! f; E9 P/ R1 ?+ `' @"z" and "w" with "v".
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# \1 C8 a1 T7 {During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
# x4 M& W9 m' o& a, N+ U% [after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.- Q! e6 c$ s6 Y1 W5 Z+ u0 A
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu# Q/ t2 L2 E8 w1 L X2 S
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.. J8 l$ Y% H1 \3 i O6 U2 N1 v( e
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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9 {# `, d/ L5 l/ J- Y7 WIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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