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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will& N4 q3 Q# _6 V. ?5 b" L0 K
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was% c* u: n1 C3 I2 C
the other possibility.3 O& O3 u5 i: W2 R6 }, V4 {
; z0 {- [5 l/ H2 F4 {* `As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% `% p& M" y9 S" x2 l( i
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in( C; B% y9 H! u. w( S3 g3 M
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".# m8 n R* M3 n2 O9 P7 k0 E
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make# y/ X( Q- F1 U, S
the sivil servants jump with joy.! P8 Z; A+ ^- o' C+ Y
5 }+ z4 C+ p/ v' G( [The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up2 I& ^, N( U" N( ^5 ^
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.) |- @9 J" t% E/ I. F6 i8 Z& A
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
- [2 H( t9 b4 z% T4 n& T9 Ntroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
8 p4 W+ N w9 T$ r" d1 jfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to3 G. ^7 R& X- y% f
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always' f& x# H3 O% S, }& x }4 S& T0 H- L
ben a deterent to akurate speling. r- h0 t! w9 C: P5 l8 N
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
5 B8 J9 G" R9 R0 Ydisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with- W; @" y. T8 O
"z" and "w" with "v".5 W% R8 m5 Y! G3 }0 J
D6 Q$ E& q+ T. ~1 Q0 f4 qDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 C' x% C/ ]; vafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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) C# G4 n9 S+ F# [, f+ l1 aZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu6 P9 {! X. M& M- P- m! b
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.3 i; R" s D+ S; }3 \
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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9 N9 o+ O0 E) w8 B/ Z1 x: c2 n5 l# CIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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