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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
& `% Z/ q% G8 Hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ }+ ?- M- N" N3 x. U! V
the other possibility.
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( K* @5 [1 a( e E: uAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
6 K9 @+ A: |! E1 g! [spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
) N* b; b( n* z" rplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ z5 ^+ @2 K, k
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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, f- [8 Q$ E% g Q
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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" @4 f- j- h1 XThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
. ^$ v+ o9 Q) e" Rtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like6 n8 k- Z/ \7 B# u
fotograf 20% shorter.+ D _; G& o+ V8 T4 @8 y/ e+ r# D
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
4 O) T0 h* C0 p1 Jreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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7 |# f& y% Q$ D8 u; hGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
# e0 S3 T6 a4 Z5 y* l1 qben a deterent to akurate speling.+ e% C5 v! c7 b9 c* O1 c: ]. E
5 U+ u# o1 S) u5 PAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 n3 y" J( D+ z* X, x& I
disgrasful and it should go away.
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$ j1 W( \' K, H8 A$ oBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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2 |* T! v P% I( `7 O9 t: ^+ bDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and* @! n6 E7 j& ^
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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. W. l- Z* f* o# x6 z) b4 @Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu) L+ A$ e2 [* c- w
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.0 X5 Y6 f: r: W3 A" C/ {
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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