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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
w. U% l$ R( g0 g; A; wbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
" n" J" O" D: I1 [0 d) Espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in0 M% l: f$ m6 K+ \
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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6 A( c- K5 w" i/ j9 d1 EIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
* I; \+ O/ D' Z+ _3 q9 Tthe sivil servants jump with joy.) P0 h- h1 G$ l: a) c5 C" ~6 U
& c1 C/ @8 o7 d* `* T9 d. e9 oThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up' R+ `/ O: m' P3 a8 D
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* g2 B7 L- m( _' o, u! x/ O
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2 d& ]5 Q0 B! d6 B7 w$ ]- EThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 {5 E' o+ k( Mtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like, w" u% R& D2 X7 H$ w" T2 L
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to- S" m* ]6 E# u% y; T7 T3 ~* a
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: ^; P, q$ ~; v. l
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always' l# E5 Q5 |2 R
ben a deterent to akurate speling., J9 H4 L; V1 L
9 F( l) S1 s# k2 ~3 MAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is/ O, h4 V8 [* ?: O Z9 r
disgrasful and it should go away.
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/ g5 p% r3 D' s- D! @+ N' u) j2 F4 SBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
" [+ U* i( J2 |* b8 a"z" and "w" with "v".2 A0 v, K0 @ T H
4 \0 y. A& z" `, l2 E+ ADuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
& f4 _" u* M" S# c& yafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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% ~, P) w' i R( zZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu/ O+ c% ]1 s1 P1 `
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.7 l! t5 |" ]7 Q$ Y) r
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze# s0 M ?# e: P* h
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' N4 E- X5 h/ w6 R9 ~8 M% @If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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