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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will* a* s/ B: |4 j. [9 B% E& e1 J$ @
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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( Q4 z* ]4 \/ E" ~4 P- ] WAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English L# Y- v+ L. p* i
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
6 K+ I4 f& E, |9 {plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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, r% a; U+ p8 l6 j' ]4 Q% IIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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) U8 u. k' @% ?! E# ~1 X# H; c, tThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up9 |- V6 N' J/ T0 X9 h
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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; o/ S! h4 T }: aThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: |1 K! k+ Z: e5 C) r, b" ~1 _; X
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
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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" }9 I1 ]9 ?" @ n9 {6 g( ^Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is0 k% Z/ k/ H1 C; o* r1 M/ {4 b+ d/ a
disgrasful and it should go away.2 L; k7 R4 o9 r3 l; k5 U4 N
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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" {: |* D! n! _. q' y+ E0 b3 p
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl." `- d6 U1 y, R- u# k' o
; B$ q. Y- g. l4 ^& ]" ]! yZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu# i- J: f q0 T8 A+ g! g! ~
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
" U0 N8 r. h8 ?" A. S+ T* ~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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