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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will2 ]) p# A, W: V1 y
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ q+ I% [6 F V$ I# B- k) Q
the other possibility.3 o7 {' t' ?8 s1 H& }
# g8 s$ R8 E, M* Y+ B+ w1 OAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% T* h; b% Q- K7 t
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in. d) V9 ?& G, p7 [- E5 `
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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+ e4 y, i- F3 @9 B2 Q3 RIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make7 P: c3 `2 {+ b3 b2 a |& ?5 D8 {
the sivil servants jump with joy.' Y' q0 [- b2 k' O/ X) x% T0 v
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up5 y4 A4 ?; B+ A E1 F/ ?, a+ s ~
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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9 R2 ^' Y0 q& }, G7 N8 s v5 ]. }" S' tThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ Z1 _% ~. Z$ H o$ |# Q) }; [6 btroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like' x+ W( i) g! {1 b' P
fotograf 20% shorter.: i q3 Y6 Y# p O$ ^& q8 c, H
6 k' w, @ P; N% C* LIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
5 `. D" e: t, s+ G: B: \0 \+ t Xreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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1 Z* r- u) W0 c3 _7 t) dGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always6 R. l7 ]# U6 e% e3 p7 y( y
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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7 R x3 F. I3 @8 iAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is/ [/ `& U& ~0 j9 n7 L
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: B0 Y' a6 g- p+ E
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
2 {2 Z' {. `- t2 l4 @after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.2 b% m" `! S) c8 M
# k! x2 s* x4 k# k+ Y, i9 \2 wZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& w5 X5 q, C3 Z% S9 \2 ^understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ Y9 c7 r) ?, B B5 D+ b, fUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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i j- N' x* r. a: V# d/ g, mIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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