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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
* ]0 l5 o V7 T9 x! x. [7 Pbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was; e- E! O. j/ J- L. `) f
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English9 w F- s5 H1 h: o1 }
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& C9 U' ]9 u5 k3 p, a" Nplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." P: v9 p- @5 C/ x" ]& X
. [' N" e1 b8 Q- I6 A- mIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! ~6 O) p+ N( l0 f8 u/ V
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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# ]% |* K4 @) Z5 wThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up7 U' ~: T- h( @. Z
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.3 y9 |4 d' j3 }6 z/ t
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1 Y' I* n n/ X+ x4 w3 y! u. b7 n4 uThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
) `, k9 K$ p8 q5 F! |troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like/ o6 K$ t, g; K1 {4 q' d
fotograf 20% shorter.* f$ X0 `( N( c- A5 u1 A/ C( P
- q* h8 N$ p- Z) G- N2 hIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to/ V l6 g! `8 |9 T2 D6 b6 O
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.( w7 o5 v3 j- N& u* C9 X
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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, e7 t6 R2 e/ l6 n2 W rAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
: r. n _" G" R) z) `disgrasful and it should go away.9 Y: f( }* u" |' B" W+ l
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 Y" J0 @: B, I4 j- m" lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 u2 b& v- u. ?# x: y% ?0 A
. W4 Z5 j- J# X0 w7 ?. yZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu6 o- z8 Z8 N) i
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.; H1 k% ^" e( T8 \! m3 K
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze0 `. n2 v* s% r/ z/ `& Z
forst plas.
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( H, [& L8 l# s3 b" w" V& TIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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