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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! q% n, D8 a! c$ e
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
$ M% ]. a* l) ~+ P, K' Athe other possibility.
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, g4 h2 G* p6 w# i+ M' YAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
+ a8 Q% g, I6 p7 B, sspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in6 g m% e K5 g, p
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish". v+ K, `. Q" N0 v3 a6 [
- G. T H4 d. o k E1 U j5 ^0 vIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
2 H7 }; a6 {9 mthe sivil servants jump with joy.( ~% W5 @* k0 O" L- o
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up9 b' j" |$ P+ V" F7 e' D
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter." R6 s9 z& n9 {5 O0 s
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the% n* D* t# S7 v I4 }
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! m/ `5 G s: S( k/ _' x
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to* s4 s% E/ }6 X$ L/ s; F
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* F( [( s4 ]0 T6 }! b
* R9 q, F. T( YGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# M2 r7 K, `0 x! v" i3 Q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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1 q) g6 Y) g& k- TAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
7 [3 [6 H0 D2 W$ X7 I2 K* Ldisgrasful and it should go away.$ e0 N3 D& l# x( K3 d1 k
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with& [& q: B9 ~' U& k
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and& P( s( t, _0 @# g0 p3 |
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 `, S i; v5 f0 N1 T5 i/ t0 ]; D
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu4 D8 E! F8 Q& l. {
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; E( ?( W! b0 G/ k$ V( V. eUnd 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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