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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
I: T. E& @0 Q1 w" U8 ]be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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* H8 l' p! ^$ i, l' G# o1 `8 R2 AAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English8 A& E' ~* `" `( d5 }9 [
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
) u7 o; e, x0 M' g2 s p% Rplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".( s7 |2 Q% s. T m) O( v4 z' z) b3 Q
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make6 k5 p& P/ J" Q* o, b# _
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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/ J8 ]- h& i2 f$ @1 TThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up- O. Y+ U% H! ?5 g
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.% {! \( Z$ j* Z K
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; H0 a; T( ?% X; [7 q6 wtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! h4 e) z; O6 x, N
fotograf 20% shorter.! ] p) S: u" T' v
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to' l* e# |% b k( ~2 }8 H! k- f
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 b7 Z ?: J5 h8 k1 D, b3 xben a deterent to akurate speling.& C, k0 ^# y: Q0 |. n
+ q* T# o9 x, P/ L" }7 @' p% sAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 d. g3 v! N! v0 \6 b0 r) \6 |7 P. `
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with& G' r* G3 c" T6 }
"z" and "w" with "v".
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( p7 s) l( P) z; F# J$ N, lDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and/ O# m$ G; o: m0 L! S
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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0 Y I9 U7 |2 \" eZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu% ?/ {% I8 e* p7 ~; [: U' E6 z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.! T# F* F. \: h. X. {
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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" `* q/ t" @) RIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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