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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- I1 C9 n& t+ F6 G
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
2 I' h$ ^1 t8 X+ athe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
: |* D$ v# A! ?# E+ x/ S+ espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
" j4 ~5 Y1 }" V0 y% r: X" v7 L' Qplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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6 e# W2 d* C6 {. N# R3 CIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
1 a. ~, R6 d+ N6 V$ Jthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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; R! h9 ?2 W: l% a4 y, rThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up( j1 O$ h# h+ c* V; F2 A o
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.3 B; R7 H! ^, j v1 X: M' G
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the0 ?4 E8 }' L" ]: A$ m
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like" ]4 y' ~" ~% ^9 H4 b- p
fotograf 20% shorter.
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+ ~ j3 C% u9 W/ F; yIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to( \, Q; z5 W& h+ Z
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always5 `! D5 u; A& N) w2 y( a. K
ben a deterent to akurate speling.8 q+ U! I9 {5 q& O; A q
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is/ i' L/ I. `2 ~* G2 L! G# @
disgrasful and it should go away.2 {& W3 s+ A& a# U+ k+ C, C
- A) j% p; s/ G w8 l" VBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 a9 z y; k# ^# y0 o/ w
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) Z) _5 X: O9 H5 H; F Q. ]4 Safter 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
2 o2 {9 b3 n& m& \8 ]& {+ M' q+ Sunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
5 d' i6 b# s* \; u8 }Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze* f" a; \8 d% O" c9 G, g. n
forst plas.
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1 G, Y. E. F5 S2 EIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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