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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will; Q$ h' k* U: U! M5 Z
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was1 Y7 g2 c9 Q! E: J+ |0 O
the other possibility.
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" C9 g1 c4 S- n* c* |) a' n" F, iAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
6 f' {) ? ?/ _9 ^% D, P7 dspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
4 [% ?0 X" u3 z( ^ {1 B9 jplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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/ O1 p9 @; ^) N c' X3 b1 kIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
$ A1 a5 O+ s5 y" _the sivil servants jump with joy.' ^5 W. H$ @$ V$ U; x
# {+ t* K" a4 n% f+ s- ^7 R1 nThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
7 M% K. R1 J8 h Fkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the1 R% p( D1 j7 Q0 Z, m# p: w
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like7 r* w X$ o v; z% m
fotograf 20% shorter.
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1 U, }' U+ ~% h# c5 bIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to0 Z s, M$ [6 g0 P; E% V
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.; m a2 T, U/ ?* E+ h% T) r0 L; h
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
3 d5 r5 n4 l4 H* f% M+ kben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with3 F3 `/ O: l) e' ~' s ~7 l
"z" and "w" with "v".3 P& l% w2 e8 c9 S
; i2 s# ?+ }3 {. v( }# H5 iDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
; G7 d9 h* W4 B2 Z2 ^. p- ]9 ]after 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
3 Y6 s, r& G" w. r5 H, lunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.3 j& M& W" e" }3 K; H7 v
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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