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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
/ J4 i: s) O* N1 f( z# Hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was- V8 N: w% S" H
the other possibility.
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. T! C9 S0 q8 z' C+ _+ |3 EAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
9 i' @' {) ^) B' r u+ ?spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in0 k, N6 r z1 G2 { o; j
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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5 u, q. s$ S6 N1 O/ SIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make/ g v, b* L3 _! L
the sivil servants jump with joy.4 ?7 K! s7 n5 J" X1 |* u3 }# k
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up5 Y1 N3 `% o3 j. A5 N/ E+ B% i+ P! o, m
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; k, J, S: w4 @" W/ a% ftroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like: l, E# X3 N3 J& H- w
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) F7 d& l @1 A+ z- O
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.8 m& \( K" A/ n
/ A" s4 p1 U) _: [% o& N, v) D: D* qGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
8 |/ Y: U, V2 h$ hben a deterent to akurate speling.
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4 o4 d' f7 Y+ c) f0 c4 EAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is0 o, ~; Q! A" g; A$ L5 L7 C
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with- |2 p% S5 S6 u
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
7 r! R& J# [$ xafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.1 Z) _# B* d+ o \6 K# @. A
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu4 j( A& N" F2 I" G
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 R& u7 B2 l" R8 x' S$ i: fUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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