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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will& M% A1 N9 J" _5 w* p+ ?
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was/ m0 P: j" f$ V" c$ ]3 @ `
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English* H3 t! j$ q5 V) ^, Z" v
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- n3 D0 N! a2 y4 t, s
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 w8 i6 J9 h1 Y. W
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
3 j, y' A5 Q* sthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 r. ?8 r6 w* Q& G- ?troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
: d9 k+ I; [* e- D& f( `fotograf 20% shorter.! Z- C* [8 K4 L* b
" ]4 G/ @# Q/ E6 c( y1 b' L8 pIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) j9 c9 H( b! V- n8 v* n. d
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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% ]* n3 w J2 ?) @6 w2 [8 yGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always/ {# C, H1 N: A7 S. {
ben a deterent to akurate speling.+ e4 f8 N; k2 R; o
" h6 \0 `, @" B( GAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' t; d$ B0 D* T: r2 Y! w6 X' Pdisgrasful and it should go away. G8 Q( {8 a/ T9 Z, i
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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) f% V- v5 H; E* K( nDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
1 G' a' L |9 Cafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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0 P. {; F0 f; CZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
u/ M# A% K/ v4 ]' L/ ~$ c# D/ A' junderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ `% V* u3 B' ]- c2 O3 l/ x# G) k+ K
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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+ y: q* Y# C i) yIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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