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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' a$ C1 @% j0 `2 ?, x0 u: r
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ k6 d/ u3 }3 X9 O. _& _
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
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In 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
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1 O& O3 j# W4 y/ g" ~There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the' I( D9 h& p7 f$ u
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) S3 E3 ~7 `; D; f* F9 }9 B
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible., e5 k$ N) Q7 G, g
7 Z, h% e5 B0 z' Z& G6 r0 jGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 j3 O( {* Z% ?( K! Z+ Z$ t
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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( p" a2 j) g a$ X; O8 s2 vAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is: h* r3 M5 h$ t6 |6 X
disgrasful and it should go away.; A" q: d( p) e' J+ Z+ d
/ W3 D1 j/ [6 n- B3 {( t8 ?/ vBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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# u5 a! p: q3 }) H# P% I! h6 S# oDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 z- Q% l6 v0 s* C) Y7 yafter 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
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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" `: C" `1 g( `; hIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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