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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
1 `/ k- |* @- |" ]% c+ u/ pbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 c) a W( i& T
the other possibility.: B6 \* |8 d/ }% x+ r# @
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English/ Z6 ` y" `$ T( Q: G+ ^4 ]
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in }1 X9 V G' l& P* p$ y
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish". m* T6 y5 S6 C3 s% Z
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make% k j3 o5 ^1 f. Q5 X( f9 G
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up* r3 D* [! `( k0 V- S$ T7 y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.& a* \1 D6 H! n- b! j
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2 w7 A. ^3 T+ K# B) A+ D. ]There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the* [+ W( n( S$ O, @" p' ?/ ~' {
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
; y9 W. |: c, b4 O% s ~reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.; v& T) o* f7 d0 a+ j
9 M8 a Z6 ]8 L. `2 ?9 n: i9 VGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 D# K+ s+ h) i" Q$ x
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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' {' W9 F, a$ W0 Y! r, FAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
1 E( g/ I) a1 x s9 rdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with0 U3 |4 X6 Y1 V/ v% X4 {7 `8 x
"z" and "w" with "v".& V- x0 h" ?& t6 A; Q* x: d
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
1 U! p( w. U) s2 C3 \after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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; J8 V' q0 r# G3 g7 r% pZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
% F, n4 y: g9 munderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru., d7 r6 L& k8 e* T
Und 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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