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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' Y& W# }% M% ~/ M* v1 i4 F, b% o/ i2 U
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was; k( N* M8 z7 L8 |+ W( J, y5 d
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
# s3 u5 P% Y) t! uspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" z* j, o- ~ j4 S& n
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ {+ A+ D. O9 k( B5 l8 z- f" H# a
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make* j S v8 y9 D
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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5 d6 a, T& k" M2 x+ c- v( _The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up4 s3 y* b- ^; n& J+ }! `6 i: `! p, `
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.2 a# E) T+ P8 L$ b( ~
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/ I# Z& @& [$ D( yThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# E" |% i U6 K9 Q/ s
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
- W& i) V& `) S- xreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.3 j9 u) l% P0 Z' X
" \' ~7 U- P) ~* J0 u$ VGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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, u8 _- f% k' M& _" E$ bAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
8 G' ~1 G& Z: Z3 }8 e6 _disgrasful and it should go away.
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4 y6 O, W E. U& b8 ABy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% g1 Y* f8 H% F: t5 u/ S
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and! x. V( f7 F, K G" F) X& j
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
3 r: D5 b$ F7 ~# F2 F% V( v/ Wunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
6 c% O' S* ^; M+ t0 E8 D5 z, e% GUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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. f! P7 S# f/ N3 R" mIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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