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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ [& x! g6 M5 \
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was' ]4 U4 O8 A* @. m& B1 J
the other possibility.
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. W( T6 u5 H; `- r, c& D& [, Y7 U: CAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
% c9 g: g; N( Rspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* f; p0 l8 l5 G- z E: o8 P1 _, g5 Pplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% ?/ [+ H8 C3 O9 ^8 i0 C
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
4 F% n& w3 r6 cthe sivil servants jump with joy.0 N% {" j1 {( K$ _5 ^
! w I# l" X4 O; S( N2 c% r# u) nThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
0 |8 ^, _; Z X3 x, gkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., p J( g* @4 c I8 }* }6 x
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8 U! O8 K9 _- N, i4 b) E# H8 M' NThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
3 b( N% h; B$ @5 itroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like( W! H# }' `; n( j: P
fotograf 20% shorter." z5 g8 ]8 k* L0 b
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
6 Z: z) B# X6 Qreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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7 V/ y, U, v# @8 CGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
, u* r) r# }' V% F+ W- mben a deterent to akurate speling.
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/ y' p' x3 H/ C+ ~Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is5 s' t+ x! B) N+ v- @% I3 H
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
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
/ s! o4 ]8 E% g7 u0 I$ wafter 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, w' ?/ `4 s0 j' q3 @
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. i0 r2 n, h& i, f* I) G# \
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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