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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
# M7 b0 l$ E% h7 Ebe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was3 y* q3 _( k, l, Z$ B3 I2 Q
the other possibility.6 n, N* _/ d+ |4 u7 F0 s
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
' M2 D! O% t! Zspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
( P4 ~" m, b' J! `+ x$ zplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make# n4 Y$ N) v% ]8 ]
the sivil servants jump with joy.! N- g2 w- b5 F5 J1 b& P
' O7 z$ U+ N; h/ iThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up) M0 Q) s- G5 |' q
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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1 B3 f% }; J0 L- z! HThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the; j+ _# n7 ]" p) J
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like) A( l- K: i5 Q1 U! f
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
% h. f9 _$ \# G5 n9 L2 Z9 w7 k8 ~reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.6 C8 y i9 @; t, I
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
# S! p& Q9 O+ cben a deterent to akurate speling./ I" L9 B( X2 Y; G/ R
5 s1 M0 ]8 c. S8 pAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
# F5 d' C, ? ~! J+ T+ ^disgrasful and it should go away." ]1 y' s( T+ i' D/ m
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with/ q: J# E& P1 Q" z6 g2 f2 a
"z" and "w" with "v"./ F! \4 C$ r: \; Y6 Q% p" z
6 t$ I( X8 Y, x, t" a/ G9 [+ uDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
9 E% P8 m. y- n7 @: v+ Dafter 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 tu1 z3 n3 l9 n# b" {! {$ n
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
# n* ~" J! o6 A8 j% sUnd 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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