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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will; K. U5 o v, C% [8 y* c+ Q
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
# ]$ a; z" A: W1 e* D! X: Dthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English C7 }4 ^ S: d t( k
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
s% |) E0 ]* b" a- Iplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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! N2 V1 n$ `; W4 T7 v+ D: IIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
7 r7 x% a6 B1 R, ^& rthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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- w, W+ ]; _8 O# y" jThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up6 { @3 ?% M3 f: W- U( f: w
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
& E( X6 v# G& u+ q9 l8 a4 V! r# }, Htroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like( m2 j0 J* B" {5 \, [
fotograf 20% shorter.
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`& W, ]+ L. \8 gIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to8 ~3 Y' f6 `. j" a
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.$ b7 S j7 W" {
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
4 W7 K* e( f- U+ [6 qben a deterent to akurate speling.
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/ _ O. d. d) i3 V% XAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is# w! T* R% n) E2 n; k
disgrasful and it should go away.4 H# S. b8 {2 v0 r$ H# Q& e
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 s0 L2 m1 J& r
"z" and "w" with "v".! V' b2 a, ^3 J8 U5 ]/ E; m; G& v
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, R& b! l. \- Y9 Y( Q% {1 Pafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.8 O6 g0 g% n/ v. R; V3 r
2 \' x/ a |: T4 I/ z) WZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu$ a; t9 T4 O1 d, @7 U1 J$ r6 x: S" ]
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.' ^5 `: X/ A9 J& ]
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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; g ] y, t: C, v/ ?& p5 \If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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