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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, s/ {, j- Z4 U! m- Ube the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ _6 l8 [5 W9 B3 A$ L
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
% _+ E0 [, {9 o! tspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
) [% [7 D! I. C" S+ x4 cplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".( a; t, b9 @+ r
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
. {% z! V: x1 k5 _0 sthe sivil servants jump with joy.. a4 r" ^" V# M1 Y" F
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
, C/ x$ K. U, `0 i; |konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.0 G6 H! R- D6 u0 Q/ T# l, h
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
$ g' I+ Y) R0 K. Y* Z4 rtroublesome "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 to2 r5 {% l& F4 `) j* N0 h8 b7 R$ r
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
[. j1 c3 H( f q3 c3 Aben a deterent to akurate speling.
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; n" v4 B! c- C% U5 K1 m/ ZAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
. ]5 ], w% n7 z; T, ?/ Q7 n; ^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/ `; `7 q& J; H
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and, ?3 S) ]% f' O, Y* a1 Y
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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8 H# \0 @9 i/ z$ l9 `. t. hZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu9 @. R5 ^; m: j' e
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; \# K2 h- f! j, Z* s# @# ~Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze! g7 v, Z4 C' ]* C7 U, H
forst plas.
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0 X- r, E6 U* u G) OIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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