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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
; x& |0 o" O0 _6 y3 Jbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was: n" w* t4 b2 `- B
the other possibility.
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* |: b( [/ E: l4 ?: g, t) _As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
4 ?9 R6 V9 }" w# Wspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in1 l$ Z0 r3 f, n W- {! U/ A, r
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".' q$ c4 |9 b$ b/ {
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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9 L4 w$ q4 B1 z& ]' vThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ m& r7 z+ x7 `
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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4 [' V+ G7 r2 b7 }& TThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the$ _# \# L) G7 T; _8 {
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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. v4 u/ R. z0 qIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
4 U7 y* ^ }3 t5 N6 F' H0 @reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.& C3 K, ~# q% [3 I
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
: U1 |4 N7 O+ }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 is* u4 o# m/ K9 s3 `9 r; k5 I: C
disgrasful and it should go away./ [/ e: I; S3 O
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with, C! w; {" c) {1 ]
"z" and "w" with "v".! v! i: F( H6 g2 H6 k& B4 s; l
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and0 L7 L. q" f( d/ l
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.2 @ w5 S2 q# K& m: V
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
2 s7 m8 V& _8 n$ bunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.5 h$ z( ?7 \: j3 ?# J1 Z5 s* T" h
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze9 w; v a4 X V8 t# X
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7 G/ P# Z) X5 O; tIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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