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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
0 m2 \( q1 C" |; |8 P+ Ebe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was/ u2 G, Q) R3 Y. F5 V, W, s" {& `+ J
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% a4 I/ i1 q) a) B/ Q' Q
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
$ M9 m/ i1 H9 E" E i `0 }plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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# B- e9 J" f5 D8 x" m6 I( uIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
. v9 \" L# }$ ` q3 z0 r- e. jthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up) p4 w9 J; s; J
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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8 r. Y' Q! ^7 J/ v4 z3 ^% `+ zThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the8 |0 v. y8 J9 X6 s7 I. S
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
k1 H, R4 M: gfotograf 20% shorter.
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' m4 c% S/ P4 k- ^& a/ {& oIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' G- j8 y3 i) g; T7 p* G/ _* Dreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible." x6 k5 K* Z6 i* @7 E: }! ? q
( \0 e' F: i9 v/ Y* W( ?; FGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always+ [* A4 U9 O e3 ~
ben a deterent to akurate speling.- t$ j0 j3 i% T( p1 q0 b
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
# J& p) D+ ]' b' j ~7 @% O% K# p% Cdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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! t2 A& m- T, s- y" RDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
+ q- ]6 v2 d( h- B0 a/ D; L* Safter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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" l6 {: a" Z8 ~/ uZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu1 {6 s/ Y# E% ~1 A+ A& ?. v
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.6 Q: {: j5 v4 f. I9 i
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze! V6 ?7 d/ K/ f
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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