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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' U; w; `' ^2 s5 d4 X3 ^
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was) w# m1 j7 M* ~5 W3 j D
the other possibility.8 \5 ^4 ^* u0 l2 @1 B3 C1 M
' V1 Z( G- I& }9 Z. e, \- {As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
( _3 p5 h9 e9 n1 U' mspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in1 n" W* m4 Z- d& E- G
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
1 h: w5 ~# @: ` ?the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ K, |( L6 K3 ~9 a( O5 O
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 w: I# u1 {1 h: Q8 x( n/ i7 Utroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, b5 c" W1 u8 m- d1 T: G( Vfotograf 20% shorter.
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- l% X1 L) w) u \In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 l a' v @/ P3 `$ Freach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.) E e. B- {1 h3 k
3 T' s9 _+ O2 f( B0 c8 JGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
2 E0 N- t- v4 L9 F5 ^- mben a deterent to akurate speling.1 |/ c! H& N1 z! q* J
5 a/ f9 a$ M5 a& yAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
6 {2 z- Q: A, |, d- ]) ]! Kdisgrasful and it should go away.* [5 K+ _0 ^/ r1 \0 r
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with3 n+ q! d+ M: {, A) ?. U9 B0 H
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
i4 e8 Y( d* |! j$ s% Bafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
4 `) M2 n" O7 j0 q, `" Cunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.3 v/ \* c0 l3 L/ e$ \
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze: B+ U! R9 _& n$ c# j. w
forst plas.
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) Q0 `" H; U; J. c; b* p; v5 uIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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