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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
( C% z, O. h$ s q. [8 Vbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was3 O, S2 r8 B, T" K* K
the other possibility., _, i+ w% q3 r) O1 z, P
3 w5 K3 L1 l/ I/ PAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
( U5 B2 M6 x5 x) I) b% Xspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in7 F5 K/ u8 T# ~- [
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".3 o( \. D+ w5 F4 ~8 d5 @' G
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make# N5 a, z! n2 d% [. D4 K+ Q, A
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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' D' Y3 U% q6 l5 v; O3 CThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: E5 M# k6 ~ j4 V M
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.- y0 f' d4 B- s" x
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8 v/ a6 a2 ^5 t/ ^& Q+ b* T' {# w, JThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
$ r: E* Z+ [) m2 ~. ntroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
( R' n: `" D9 I7 Pfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to- b( L7 U3 N5 u0 }! v# @: D
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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0 R' W m. ^2 R o6 yGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* p+ `/ V% f3 d& e
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 is3 ~/ Q, P& w0 F& S% ^
disgrasful and it should go away.+ K e2 X- b: O4 o8 b' ^* q6 m0 ]
5 l3 ]( S+ Q' kBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
3 ]" u8 X. {; B a. ^"z" and "w" with "v".
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$ n$ ~5 k" q8 j7 O; b3 J2 T# uDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* M3 e; K- ~* X) K; Q5 Kafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 u6 F' J8 m, {+ Z, e# U
- F) @/ k* q3 @+ i& D5 HZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
3 K$ T3 p( z( ]3 X) Yunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ A5 C8 @$ W7 n# X9 kUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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* [+ {5 ^, N8 X# gIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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