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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will) \" Q5 K7 ?' ~6 n' q" t
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was8 V/ M9 Q/ Z% W2 C
the other possibility.
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4 g4 e1 o& O6 S) }" ?As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English6 n7 ^# H9 `: l; N5 i3 q
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in+ H5 v9 P/ Y" T- c2 n0 ?% g0 q9 i5 r0 ?
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make5 ^+ E0 G6 c, L6 J7 Q0 M. c
the sivil servants jump with joy. d$ \3 {0 P) N/ }/ Y
0 F2 |$ z0 q; m6 o* x& k' ]7 ^The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% z: t( y0 f6 L' r) C# ?5 I
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.& y D1 i3 _: ^. }$ Y
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9 r1 H/ b, \+ NThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
" O1 |9 _+ }- A# B) j# {' p5 u6 N4 Stroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! c6 l1 E" R/ H3 o
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
( D; H* j0 W9 Q! b' V: t2 d' yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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$ e/ a7 C; Z3 OGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always) E, h- [4 s* i, P, G5 A9 f
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
$ i( V7 A0 a7 ]7 @. Edisgrasful and it should go away.( n5 e: @: L' |: i" @% ?4 v
- G7 T, L4 ?/ _- m* N' u1 oBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
+ B$ V ~+ t! G/ K0 U1 b# z"z" and "w" with "v"., y4 H) V: [+ G
' Y6 m% ~0 N' vDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 G2 O1 [; G1 f) F& b, m$ nafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
4 o" z, N8 P3 U& R( zunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
7 D: T) K+ j) J% a' g8 MUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze: I; G. p& Q4 [/ O' T7 o0 D
forst plas.
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6 e' U2 p0 y$ I# v! C) lIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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