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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
5 `+ L4 c+ w$ R) m! P$ y% Z% abe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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+ V5 ~* _: d) d9 YAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
4 Z/ y2 h6 n1 Q* h" X$ Espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
) |* }3 r* x- N1 J) g; X7 o5 g% Gplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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& \; N m1 V* u' \- |In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
; h; i1 E5 M6 U# Qthe sivil servants jump with joy.7 @" _' `( ^' e' V0 m% }
/ l' s2 U% G" V+ q5 g) [! mThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up4 |; E2 x6 `( U
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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* o) Z3 Z( G. u7 y. aThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the! A5 h8 S y0 N$ j
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 r1 n5 |3 g$ S+ A; D% Afotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' e. @2 Y! H# a; mreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! m5 U) T8 B# d) Z2 X
ben a deterent to akurate speling.( e4 s% i; w) f- {- X. P6 S
- `5 S' B* L. \5 WAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is$ S& K) @0 A4 `
disgrasful and it should go away.9 L6 W5 T% p: T, T" d
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
2 M; r3 N4 z* N& P9 _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 tu. p; u: Z2 o8 d- c
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- R H) G. {6 ^$ |
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 `( W6 z5 z3 N# w
forst plas.
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- Z$ q8 ~; v7 K+ E% UIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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