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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
* _3 p. n3 q, E& Q1 ?6 ?6 Z9 dbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was8 x |" A- o) R- m) f) B z
the other possibility.
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( ?- P7 l: j3 E8 p# l3 k2 AAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English* ]' u6 O4 Y) T: L8 J5 j8 {# a
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in# Y# k3 J% W7 D3 `# Y6 Y$ X2 C
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% X T. p! M4 f8 p+ R6 c) ~
0 l3 g) h; D" r XIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make6 {! G& F. b! ?3 S
the sivil servants jump with joy.$ o- e# a, m+ l8 r( N" H) F" q
4 e+ P1 e2 O3 j+ r) \" mThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up! q6 t; z' n2 q) f: ?" b
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ J# g0 T4 ? q' d! y
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 ?9 d: B+ q% n; J
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
# O2 \' n2 x. h. W: i, a# j; q+ i- xfotograf 20% shorter.2 W8 k* R2 i2 [& B3 p
; }% C0 g8 \8 `& C# h5 K$ AIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to2 I4 |: @3 f ^0 [4 B. S0 s
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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& c2 q6 g {5 R9 m7 n+ rGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
5 W3 s% ]! Q% y' a2 y" Oben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is# p3 Y9 m. R2 q+ T1 Y- ]
disgrasful and it should go away.3 M9 e5 h. O) @* `8 b
4 l; @! `; m6 N. R! |' p7 dBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
M" i" M+ F( X; J5 w2 _"z" and "w" with "v".7 V& ?$ L$ M# u' z
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
5 d! h) X4 y+ z* C0 y& A1 [after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
$ q: k# E, W6 hunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 `+ N# v+ h1 L: ?+ A: Y: j( ^Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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, {! U' x# Q6 F6 dIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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