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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
3 p# m0 @. P, Q3 Kbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
" ?; B9 T! k K6 xthe other possibility.
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# q0 h4 H- A( \$ N S* q# U: qAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English8 S7 H6 R8 e6 [) h& H
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in6 b9 e B0 v. O+ E! S' Z! q
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make* X, z7 q8 m! K
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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0 L. F2 b; t- PThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up# |3 C) O* b& ]! E! e, a: y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
2 S( M6 y( t- {8 r6 R- h4 Xtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like E5 z: m& y: f% x( j9 w0 I
fotograf 20% shorter.3 u, E& Z) V: _, S+ R8 V' p$ |
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 `. O N5 A7 |reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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' i1 z5 j( v! {5 u qGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" m- d0 V* s* C; I. k F; x0 _
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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' J5 d6 d" u5 C7 \( ?Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
" n# d6 v: K/ |$ m9 tdisgrasful and it should go away., c8 @4 u# }: b, w c" H) I
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with r3 d$ ]% u5 u
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and% V6 W1 I e `1 A0 S
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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0 B5 h) T8 @2 u! b- wZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu1 X# c0 r+ i5 R
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ s+ O# k! Z N7 @; L: @Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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* E' T% G4 a$ j6 SIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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