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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will2 u1 D& c9 e0 M6 @! q
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was. `. B1 s' s) r1 M& _+ k q
the other possibility.
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# V& c# o9 s. `2 |- xAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English6 B% ^3 _# e( r' h
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in+ n+ u5 x# w$ F3 @/ S% B. k: H# k( u% P
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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2 c0 x! r2 [7 S9 u- p* e7 K: \In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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2 P6 _7 [; S$ T: V5 J/ ^The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
- E, W3 K$ p% A9 o- Ykonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
# K$ i; R: n9 E. U8 t. I6 g: Ptroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like$ ^. T3 R1 z, u a0 r; C
fotograf 20% shorter.+ i* \9 ^- e' R& ^9 ^9 b {6 }
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 A4 c3 k4 O/ _* ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.4 h5 Q7 W: G' R, F+ L/ p3 o, a: S2 t
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
9 V% G0 j7 N' cben 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$ O! X7 W1 V$ F$ ~$ o8 T
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
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 x: D3 J' A# U# o5 p5 M- aafter 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/ x8 Y, m- E& A; [$ w
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ M8 H ]) V6 Z2 |Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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! r/ c! v" y# Y; ]If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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