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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
! @* O3 h: J' U" hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was' L% R- _0 B7 n5 N1 O" `
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5 J! m. O1 o8 _; H0 s3 nAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English9 K, i b' K* S/ H7 F
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in5 S9 H0 Y0 H9 c6 N3 m
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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2 X7 ]3 l% [! G7 U; oIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
# F, d2 I# F6 B5 U. ckonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the0 a6 U$ X" _1 ~* S! h
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like V" d0 A2 C% h! L7 c/ v
fotograf 20% shorter.
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h' ~3 [% N9 U+ rIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
, F* f1 I$ b" N" K7 ~$ zreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: `2 Q+ B) G- @+ ^- Y0 @! B
ben a deterent to akurate speling.! z4 { U, T" _5 V8 u" \( Y J
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 a+ U: g$ t6 y2 F
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with* [' U! T1 g _" C9 h9 g2 Y- B
"z" and "w" with "v".
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- j: X8 I! A7 h. o3 X* e5 r$ J( sDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 ^6 D( h) O6 K Y7 C, k
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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$ `$ f8 Q# p. l9 B }Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu! o; N1 b+ z0 B6 ]. C q
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ ^* _" ?. U! B0 `* H
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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# j* h. y/ N; |2 R/ _- d1 eIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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