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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will2 p' j8 I n3 b/ m
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was ]2 I. W+ N0 O5 y" X K
the other possibility.
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8 j+ S F# B ]5 v4 V# YAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
: \( J1 {- R7 R7 a# Mspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% E5 {; g; d7 q! i
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish". u7 t" C/ ^& n& V5 t
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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i" N# F2 H+ X' e" @+ D0 _The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
" n- u3 \7 d S- N3 i& Z& K+ |konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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, D8 `' A) V/ r6 T) b0 B( nThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the+ L; ?5 j: S7 [; k! \
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
- f8 ^4 u: Q0 O! D# vfotograf 20% shorter.
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- R' L: H: ` s7 |& jIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 Z# `8 g/ J0 T# X6 t3 _reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible., E' q7 H" m$ g: l8 y8 B; f, S6 g; Q
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 w6 M; b \# B+ u$ N- fben a deterent to akurate speling.0 H: K5 I+ p* |( t/ z% E* u
8 g# W* j& o/ v1 `Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is o3 b: X. d$ X5 r: l9 f- W
disgrasful and it should go away.4 @: g4 B% o G% \6 b* d4 j
* @ |' O; P4 }* M7 \By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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. {# X) n+ m& w8 ]: iDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and( l) {" S* m3 h8 L% A+ w3 `, c
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.+ u( Q( [8 @0 p6 N% p, k
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu; }' C; L( y' N/ P6 p) l1 ^( S+ u
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Z! u- E8 X3 l2 x5 u2 F: sUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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2 A0 g v3 [( {/ m( h( NIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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