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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
$ b$ s4 ?6 a7 h- o4 z* k& ?1 f7 Hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was' H3 V* |4 F" U# a& L8 s) E7 X
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English/ j X0 Q% v# h+ M; w& i; m
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ n- l4 O! q8 f' _6 q7 g
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
; y1 i; v t5 ], v" Dthe sivil servants jump with joy. S( X1 j- h# B; s) g0 {+ W
' c1 s4 a7 u# s! q( d8 B$ E. z0 a3 aThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
) \/ M# C0 K# I6 \2 h }& Qkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the! }5 b9 N5 Y/ P9 M
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! q2 M5 c9 Z9 B5 Q7 ~4 |
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
8 B' i' g# m$ } Mreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
& i: ?5 ~# t+ k- N/ q4 G2 \' [ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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8 Y& k: a/ w$ g! p, yAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
: {9 U* _5 W0 ydisgrasful and it should go away.4 _1 R5 }' k* ^* b2 A5 _0 i) i
# a( S# P, w2 A4 x4 m# g0 GBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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- L( o) N+ i3 [2 dDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and' C& O, z7 p; z7 G
after 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 tu4 B) K$ E6 N4 L
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 n3 E. c) y( W0 GUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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' S& b$ k3 }0 c$ Y# E0 |! rIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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