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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will& D% U# `1 |' _$ v, z2 H
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was3 m8 j- G( T& I- ?& J: n4 x" O8 Z
the other possibility. X$ n! I2 i# p! F% D- K1 O% _
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
. g+ [1 U: @( u9 W: Ispelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
6 q$ Q; ^3 s. s7 V1 e) @, b% rplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ q% L9 Y6 X3 J/ ]/ S. D% n
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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+ _) r* L! Y2 G0 \( uThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ D+ U/ j# v) L* A/ t
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.4 F) E ?' h% _6 R) d
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
# z4 M7 j9 ~# ]/ E+ g/ utroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
# T2 ?" `; T8 w H/ r sfotograf 20% shorter.
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# ^/ C2 C* U5 G' |. KIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
; a6 p5 u5 [, W0 K9 }reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.1 `5 w# j; e) ^( D, R% H
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always4 V6 Z4 C: t, @0 W0 r
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 is5 q1 i$ a- g2 P; @# H! `: a4 l
disgrasful and it should go away.# _# @* ]) m/ J
& I- S$ s& h! L7 ?7 k9 ?4 dBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( b# I2 j* S. b/ T
"z" and "w" with "v".5 v* Q9 o1 D- P8 r
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
- ^7 t! V* u3 N9 G' F: ~after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.! L. _1 h a' M5 q7 z- X. v
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu( O; {. b5 b5 y/ p7 z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru., }( h0 e! ?' O1 b6 K
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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