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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ |/ u. R7 D4 bbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was' t- U& O2 g% d& \. E* h
the other possibility.
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0 ]- W/ j4 c9 V3 V: ~. C6 JAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
% F* o2 I' q8 h' J* w; jspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in3 E' q8 Y! i: q/ O% _: w J2 m$ ~0 X
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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# ]! f4 ^1 i# }4 K# R! tIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
. h+ \5 h: M( m9 _0 H5 E/ athe sivil servants jump with joy.$ I, H8 }3 T* u+ Q$ {
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
# C2 Y2 X ?/ \% A- y. g0 ekonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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* ^* g0 V: G6 F6 G! Z* l: K2 \There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
+ s' m! P' I8 |* H" U" B4 vtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like. | q) ^" x3 n$ O: Y k( p' w+ `
fotograf 20% shorter.' }4 r) i8 A- }
) D% x+ X# j% W |; CIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
7 ~1 v$ E Y6 `, U0 h0 v8 Rreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: {$ I: E* ?$ R' }4 e6 [
) x. q6 i$ a. RGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
* w/ J& O5 U B$ lben a deterent to akurate speling.3 \$ ?, _" R0 A1 W8 Q2 z- D. D
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is% z+ x$ W1 o7 P" m
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$ {# `% N4 u1 z
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 v3 f. F f2 _% Vafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.# e ]! u; d: v. x$ a f9 g
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu% V: k2 @: e8 O/ J
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru., U& \# @7 I; v$ c6 |8 C
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze% l Q: T1 x8 o' e8 W: H
forst plas.
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]/ I u+ J6 dIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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