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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will" R' j- @! l/ G
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
( |% {% k# G2 C/ ^, Hthe other possibility., m; Z# U3 B! e' ]
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English$ Z3 V( e `; b
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
0 `+ a. @- @4 `plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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" R; d% z4 [' Y: m9 X* v% OIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make, S, M& p6 L" N
the sivil servants jump with joy.# s0 Y! N' g/ q. [9 }
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up' q/ O) U8 Y8 H
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the* Z% F4 D" B- [# t4 k
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like' h9 }: }& z' c8 c/ h
fotograf 20% shorter.
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( D6 B8 k6 P) g8 jIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
0 ^1 H6 M$ ?% Y D' y; n5 Hreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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" F( k0 R; X) [' h r& e! ]Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
: |& k) U' ~- [+ x' b5 hben a deterent to akurate speling.8 L5 O. ?- r. g/ {# n% p. F
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
+ b8 R: r' `' l# k f/ ldisgrasful and it should go away.
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3 T( S3 A+ |- J$ c9 [By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with6 w, e* S3 F7 d; G5 A4 I1 k, d; {
"z" and "w" with "v".
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' ]1 N, f- R0 `' ZDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and, M, T5 }% ?' [! M" O3 H' \) n
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 tu8 E$ T' I, m0 O* D* L0 o
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.) |% D1 n# r. B
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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4 i5 [9 z8 ]7 q7 ]. U. j2 R* cIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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