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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ v6 W0 m' I; C* ^; W0 N2 ^be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
6 s1 {6 _( o6 f1 M* Y1 \1 o% \! Dthe other possibility.( f4 ~, [/ x3 f3 |
! Z- `8 Z0 B8 p& X1 p& o6 n$ jAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
+ }( }; m7 z& t* p! rspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in7 A6 }- j; U- B3 R
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 j; M# S5 |0 p; o7 C
the sivil servants jump with joy.8 t7 g" S4 ?+ }2 q$ D4 S% c
7 j2 k6 U3 F$ E( z/ \The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: r# l- U& N6 h4 O+ ?
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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" c% E" m/ ?2 M, I( LThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the" Z2 {5 _6 g: ?' F
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like6 Z8 \% S# T; b% i& @
fotograf 20% shorter.
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& g6 j" G" V" A, P. XIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' F5 X U& b! Rreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.' k2 s% C- h" ]+ I# Z
2 c+ I: H4 ]" E* hGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
' y! Q) V* {! i2 S4 P1 \ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is* @' B8 D$ |0 ]# x8 F; R r
disgrasful and it should go away.
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8 `1 ~% `5 i1 N6 r' O/ p; HBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with1 |/ ^" }% S& I+ Y' C7 O4 p
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
- w% p. n9 D2 a9 Qafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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+ U" y+ Y" {+ aZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
- j5 {% d+ m9 \+ Eunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
5 e+ @7 U* v; K/ Q" ]) {' K% uUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze* D( v: q) a) T4 Q; \
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/ n$ t$ l' Z2 o; [4 ]3 E6 HIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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