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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
; a% b$ O& |6 {' o) Y& Dbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was8 D5 ]3 V7 ]$ x7 m* E, S
the other possibility.* E4 x* {7 W! W1 z$ C
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
5 d# F+ u- G2 Uspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
2 [$ e7 M/ F$ J) ^plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".1 h4 z3 u2 x$ F4 J. w" G& l; [
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
Y% b2 o. S2 e& T3 N' D: ?the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ j- H2 M O# c- L
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: H" c' H7 K4 Z; c* D \; F. l
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
) f$ Y2 y6 h8 a- F6 K+ P8 etroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like0 f. [ b% ?: c: R) P3 J5 s
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to; N& L9 g B8 |" X
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.4 E: O5 k# o. O: Z
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; F5 v. [5 b! o/ mben a deterent to akurate speling.6 ^# k" I! G- B
6 K* x/ P" p; vAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is) g* u* a% u( [$ J" j2 U+ L
disgrasful and it should go away.. r( [0 v# x# h; ?0 C8 k
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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
% r. A* ?# }8 d m- bafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl." O* K4 V [. J. [- u
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" }5 T9 L+ v" E" d W) Dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
7 q% P" W2 k! [7 [- G0 k) `9 EUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze5 X7 \+ N% e. y
forst plas.4 S( K. m3 B% q. U p
4 ~3 j" K6 ^# Q) z/ k! b8 t. ^2 KIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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