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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 x: Q6 d7 M% v$ ?" t$ f
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
" z% j5 O- J4 }: i+ y1 Othe other possibility.% c/ S: T+ D: R+ V
; q' O+ ^ A# `8 g1 w; EAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
! z3 p4 ]% M6 {/ e2 ]5 Y. X1 r0 Nspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
; h0 |2 x! ]. k1 Jplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".& K- Y$ \/ X, ? N1 U
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make' F5 H/ {& W( l
the sivil servants jump with joy.5 Z3 q8 ` g* D
' f/ r) k7 B/ ZThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up, t& S+ u- w0 }& C* ]
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: J" U- p" m, J* J6 h5 V8 f% }
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# q2 P8 p4 s" v$ @ U( L
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like& |6 i+ J% e) k' g6 Q
fotograf 20% shorter.1 k; c( t5 Z6 S' Y- ~3 U
, n; ~8 T. f+ G: C6 H' ^1 d( ^In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to2 s% |! O9 }' g9 e$ b$ ]
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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1 }8 ?' e0 ~( XGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
0 ^7 Q, y' y1 U! [ben a deterent to akurate speling.9 X0 b8 A$ j) a
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
" w) I& @1 k4 k1 M' t. {! Tdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with: i# {& R5 _! e6 M/ Z# f
"z" and "w" with "v".) v: D; e1 J5 A3 k
+ C, Z8 H- f& I9 C% f0 h# C7 MDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: c8 H3 p1 Q# A3 A
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) E( z% {( W$ q! V9 \9 |
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu# r/ @2 D" |( k% X. c* U
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
) c# u6 x9 o! h( Y- eUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 X( G, u7 x5 L
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( ^" c' K" c1 K7 u0 G; t/ qIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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