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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- M9 V0 z5 D. A
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English; k2 F* P8 `( w% W- _, i7 B
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
/ L/ }- e# f% [2 X0 }plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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9 M* F; c% B( [) sIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make) j: ^% `- P. ^0 f7 @9 x' ]
the sivil servants jump with joy. u' w( Y; c+ |' `% m7 ^
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ [& D% X+ ~, ?0 m2 ?; u
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., U( }' w; k4 Q' i3 c: f
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% e1 S v4 \* y$ e8 h0 |9 {3 [There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the' ?+ ?7 N; x3 S3 j) ~. y7 A
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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8 h. r5 ~* p- s# EIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to, p5 a5 ?5 H- ]6 P7 t% j/ r9 n
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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1 B- }* N/ B0 E; @& Z$ kGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always. t0 W5 c7 A$ v5 y) O6 S2 }0 T4 H
ben a deterent to akurate speling.4 e3 [. E4 @+ ^
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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0 n F4 t" M* bBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 z$ I3 Q5 B6 s
"z" and "w" with "v".
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* |. b/ F( }: b# nDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 h" \% v2 n, H* ~0 Dafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.5 K2 u0 v" G- Z7 M
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu% U+ S7 C4 e5 L4 [
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 F# D6 Z& D, u: w6 b( p. _, X5 bUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze+ U$ r9 i; ~4 a0 c
forst plas.
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7 Y/ o# b e! x2 {If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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