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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
3 H; s# T$ Z) B5 e2 V; h7 Dbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was% b; O3 e8 ]6 e3 P
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
% k0 F( V! u- M: C7 H Sspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in( v7 g# e/ S$ C4 j! y: Z4 E
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".9 G" Z" y3 O. Q D4 R1 a
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 ]3 G9 |0 S3 Z2 D0 L" p
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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8 p; e' L* i/ IThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up' b+ R5 D4 e6 ?1 r
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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! g+ m6 X3 m' Q8 X( zThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
0 i6 n& G6 A/ P' P7 Ptroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like0 r% L( t, s5 B5 {7 m: [3 j: i/ z
fotograf 20% shorter.
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* c# T9 z! L1 Q6 K* ?In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# R" ]/ J+ d& B" N
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
) K1 b$ \$ H+ Q$ Y8 Bben a deterent to akurate speling.0 I& _6 z Q" v9 `# |& f: A! C
4 V' g! G4 Y9 E, M) p) f# H0 I8 bAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
; O- A$ {* j, O; a, x" l F. {disgrasful and it should go away.
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3 C3 U4 P/ A7 V9 ?+ C- eBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
2 q% b" [3 d* J. y"z" and "w" with "v".
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7 Z, O8 P" O! _" y R. lDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and2 ?6 a: k8 T2 Y2 }) I: A3 k: o( c K T
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.+ S$ i# z1 i3 {3 h" f
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu& p) Z! e+ ]) L! C1 j% r& V) W: k" x: I
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ `! d( E7 B. VUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze3 o/ y" J# N3 C1 H/ R: ~
forst plas.
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+ Z- A6 w+ @ o0 O9 t/ c( ^1 RIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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