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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 h1 K1 t9 ` x# T/ M
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ V7 x& q7 ]& `. d5 {
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% T6 J7 D8 z5 b# AAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English) a5 v' _# B5 G8 g
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
- W' l! b2 E9 M0 t, cplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish". G4 [3 _0 G- T& t) N6 b! |
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make& u9 J5 w2 o% n& h6 H* U
the sivil servants jump with joy.$ N5 J! u- q$ f! x! T# Y
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
3 s) L; O; |8 qkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
# p: G2 K% T% S1 Z7 d0 w n( }troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, w8 Z* D+ O4 R$ s4 |fotograf 20% shorter.
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/ v. l! n- g; q) s: [* y1 uIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to0 Z4 Z/ i0 d" r
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- @, D' s1 t' H7 B3 B$ x6 C4 R# W
1 h) ~4 v" ~! y9 e$ T kGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
8 Q- r3 X' k8 W+ {* X7 Cben a deterent to akurate speling.& Z8 a9 e$ F& T0 e/ E/ ]
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is) U Q6 N. Y. h3 o) I4 H
disgrasful and it should go away.
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6 \' g5 ]5 [0 ]" a& mBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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( Q. T" c7 v' L M( iDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
O4 F! t( K5 u: c5 T; \after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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) G7 r2 o. H8 T* g: }: l9 l6 YZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
- e4 `* @% {% U5 P bunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
$ G9 y9 N; C9 l b- DUnd 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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