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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
; l" _& I) Q+ H0 `8 ]4 Hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# F9 X" R% [) W! N4 @
the other possibility.1 Z w, I: X! a8 X
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English; `" [' ]% T. z: {. U" u
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 N% x2 O0 U* ~) j3 c
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make4 e B) e* \' u7 ^( i
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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" a* R3 M* k2 e+ A7 s3 }The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
. M( Q5 _; l; v' S1 `# V xkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.. a' G8 |2 }8 d" z! r& L$ V
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. \$ \+ B ? k' ]$ CThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the0 I; |& A9 x6 \4 E; e- X
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like" ~3 U. G! g8 L1 b' `: u+ q
fotograf 20% shorter.' h5 _9 }! T+ n# e8 K5 s: `
5 s' v" A, @7 k y$ |3 |In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
" f( J1 c4 U: E6 t1 Q% |reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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- c9 z2 z( B6 v- u" P5 Z' t+ C. K6 Y1 \8 GGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
! m# v$ s: A+ O( s6 I7 Cdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ k* i) a: R7 t2 r' W" A
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
5 Q, G( t" \' Q' Hafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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9 Y s' } @0 @: RZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu8 I8 E+ B- \8 O: h
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
' T4 c2 e2 |/ N- y, f* XUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 s( Y) G p3 m- h4 z5 U. b
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5 _6 |5 S' B- LIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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