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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
5 K- g, O; x) k6 X) e# nbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
, ]4 t* M8 J5 k2 Othe other possibility.
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$ p9 t6 F' Z- h( P2 `) LAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
' S- ?/ d4 u/ O4 c" h& L. M8 _# dspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
; E% D9 `: R' O: d7 R; \plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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: Q, o) ~8 E( G3 @" S. S, Q5 eIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make6 I5 u/ i2 N: s7 C- e7 @
the sivil servants jump with joy./ [5 R4 ?' P$ G+ |, `6 |
. x) _( R- B9 {The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up( _9 j! [9 `% f
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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# L* E/ D$ P8 q% d/ G+ d! ]% {+ HThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the" U! c7 d/ F5 |& D4 A. C! h
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! `6 ]3 O2 V M3 H1 |5 y+ x
fotograf 20% shorter.4 T1 w8 S! P( x, I R" ]
* O1 S! Z4 D/ ^$ MIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to5 Z1 u; k7 H& h# n7 R5 U0 I/ ]" P: ]$ ?
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 R+ s! |1 _1 }4 f
ben a deterent to akurate speling.$ K- x1 Q8 _* Z2 A
3 A4 y; M: d7 C" GAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
! L: a/ l" ~/ W. x; bdisgrasful and it should go away.# s9 B0 l, m" w5 T& D$ }: E
# v" q& y7 x9 ?* k3 \' V; P2 |By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
+ O/ V$ u4 k( t"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
% \" d% V# Y7 p% ?0 Q! V+ y8 U: }* bafter 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# Z& ^( z; g4 o' F! C2 ?0 m Z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
1 T0 {; I6 I; P1 [! y' m6 _9 {" bUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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