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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will1 E+ f( Z, S9 F7 I7 h$ B( {: H
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was! X5 e( M; l t3 V3 d( b
the other possibility.
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9 w" P# d* |7 l# l! c1 X/ E0 CAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English( [/ i$ n t/ E& m0 \
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in ]3 `6 B% c7 w. a1 \) G0 y4 _7 K
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"., y: M$ G& |6 d6 W- ^
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make. {5 ~- i% U J2 j& H. W1 k
the sivil servants jump with joy.0 ~) E* w+ B' M9 L: k
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ K( z7 ]& n# T; L3 k3 W/ W
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.! z: N; ^3 x+ ^' }# p0 f7 B
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1 P$ U5 \5 W ~0 J; tThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ z4 M' {0 t @6 T1 W$ ztroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 D2 c3 D3 o8 I7 l! L/ C; T# afotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 W( H. O9 a- m$ X* k' Y6 wreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.' w. P+ h. ~" d
) M2 h; R$ N' P% g( Q# SGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always) f, e2 s" O3 ~: A
ben a deterent to akurate speling.% d& A+ [) `0 ~% E J' u$ J
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is W; @9 C; z% F- h( E5 [' Z
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! B+ t( B( m1 |$ b; B
"z" and "w" with "v".. c# O# R7 r1 {6 w6 U/ {& r
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, E: l; c* ]' p* v% v. C2 Dafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.+ H. [, r5 _1 T- x9 r. z6 x
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu0 C* x# U6 p2 c( N( h1 n0 P
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
* {; W k) E! t, C0 \) f, FUnd 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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