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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will0 C! k; T( ]# g+ g6 A+ l& n
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was! @, `, j5 A2 f$ Q7 \# J3 Q% h8 b
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English) |. x$ g- O1 x% N# f$ ~
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
! M: v6 _7 N: \' \% O' [plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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( I7 D8 C$ x- u0 D" J3 l. B/ WThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up5 a( I, ]) D& [# W: }
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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* x6 y7 E" j; s8 dThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 f! ^6 s: K3 Z: D6 Otroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
9 I7 h9 H3 ]4 Ffotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
$ N5 \6 \; E: [% }; [: e# ?* j) sreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 S/ e5 _' o# j3 c% `" {6 v
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 I. S2 `* j8 c
"z" and "w" with "v".. B' _2 v1 v* X B
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 f% y0 A/ T- B+ @ l8 gafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) z! j9 h* ]7 x J: T' C
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu8 Q9 c, l/ O( L! o W, s r6 L
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.' V0 P+ k' D9 i: w% @( h; m
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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- t, K7 v1 ]0 y t( uIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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