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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
% N/ L! C% _, I& Q. y& dbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
0 d" i) d. k! k3 e+ Q5 E4 J' Cthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English0 r0 {! l& K3 Q( o6 _" ~. k6 B
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
$ P) v! l; m+ h, l1 b" g, fplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 W! {* p0 I. [1 I8 @
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up0 X7 R! I5 b, y. P! A
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.8 k5 d* M, x1 Y
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+ ?* f2 K5 Q) ^There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
' ^8 O" t# w4 `1 c1 r" Ltroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like* r, n; j" Z; _+ }5 U
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' _: R/ A8 {1 X% [: e/ Treach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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! H5 N, X& g( xGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
( F7 s7 b- K- V9 G3 A0 N# ^9 L9 u4 Lben a deterent to akurate speling.% J4 }$ W: I9 i6 M7 C$ ]5 q; W
& u m4 H* l# sAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
. B, j$ Y% [5 Q6 jdisgrasful and it should go away.5 o1 O4 f; y. }
4 D6 x8 h7 u( f$ K8 G* C# _By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with5 g8 N# _, f: C' v2 A
"z" and "w" with "v".6 ~( g# e6 g- X% N C
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and& ~7 Z/ C; \6 R
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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5 |5 q, ^. e# l$ U! nZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
0 U+ p; F9 z c, D1 zunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
5 W* t- h) ^3 r) m7 {3 yUnd 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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