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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 i; S9 f; ]% X0 f* w
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was9 r& l/ _! e1 u- L
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; Y, I, O! X# O9 t5 D0 nAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English6 ?7 b% `! P2 F$ ?% k8 u: A
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
$ X: ^0 G2 j9 J' j+ A% i% Fplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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, ~* `9 i# }& B& J: LIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
4 I( m6 l: D6 @the sivil servants jump with joy.2 [5 e6 j# F B3 t0 \4 M
5 A' a5 r: T' k( z) o: z6 tThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up3 O d9 G, ^) T" c' W
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.5 ^/ s9 D6 l( _5 g- |, @
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
* L6 Q% v2 H' ~ t" Ktroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
$ p5 Y# @5 r. n# q) j3 u( Efotograf 20% shorter., T0 C+ X4 L& U; v; ~
3 g" ?2 [; `' R% X8 aIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) a3 `5 U# u ^. M6 V* P' B8 @. ^
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
/ c* B( U$ }2 ~: iben a deterent to akurate speling.
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3 Y0 g* Z9 S2 [' P2 n/ g* MAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is7 _, d6 o, s0 g2 w' z3 G# Z/ ~
disgrasful and it should go away.
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9 \: ?8 N1 K! @/ w6 { L- b/ JBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with4 p- P& ?4 [7 U; i7 {
"z" and "w" with "v".
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2 l% p1 r( W5 Z* ^% D% jDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 x9 y3 }7 U, U# z" g* z" _, cafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. K, c5 U" [; f: {; O
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
2 F4 l: x" D8 Iunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ p9 k" g4 c5 W' m EUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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$ ^$ E! x5 j1 qIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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