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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 g+ r# S' `0 A
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English6 t ]1 [8 U9 D3 K
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in. L! T* }' f1 d3 m, ?
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 a6 s9 S) |4 J) t
the sivil servants jump with joy.4 F1 C3 Z- q; [. c- c
, U1 ~5 }) e& D# MThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up B6 w+ m1 y" h5 v# C* i* ]
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.6 G; X1 d* }, h8 B E4 {) @
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the1 S( Z3 l- ]3 h) a2 `8 q' z
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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2 ~# a5 W) p+ y* }) o# m8 LIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to! `5 M3 X; l2 N! |7 K
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.1 M4 ]1 a. i& r9 g% B+ d
8 f6 I7 w: ?4 _ B8 wGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always3 J* y2 Z0 w7 d8 `+ B- q
ben 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
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with' Y, z9 v( w0 C! L3 \! |. s) `" `' I( M
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and/ M! t+ h. D, x, L* u7 {
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! u8 a% }. R! P9 T) V; [+ z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
1 E9 O( t, d" J0 [! `" p* NUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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" f ]0 I$ K- IIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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