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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will* G$ h# w! S) _0 S
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English( K1 X( z3 ]7 a! Y, G& W
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in5 `# m3 d' q, p8 r
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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+ ?, O8 z u* zIn 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 up4 Q7 G( s4 v3 e/ P1 s* f- T+ D
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.4 p C, ]: j4 h8 [. N( J
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
. X. C: |) ?+ `5 f' ^troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
7 ~% X9 m; [8 Z3 Tfotograf 20% shorter.7 t/ ~ v1 ^& u6 S0 C7 o. d
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to g, n* j- C" S
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.# S' p3 j* y/ Q! [. U
0 p3 `+ Z, M( ~4 _Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
5 t& A1 O8 t/ k$ l$ \0 h- Gben a deterent to akurate speling.
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$ ? e- Y% G) R5 Z h% GAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 c6 p. `, j; u
disgrasful and it should go away.( p- Y5 ^4 t% B
" {7 j. Y! `/ _" Z4 N M6 y8 J' j: `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
2 d" g; \8 w0 W+ q" ~3 Q. @1 Gafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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0 F& L" L$ v4 [7 [8 Z/ jZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
- [' k; Y2 K `' eunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.2 w6 a# ~! N: K4 N8 o- Q7 l
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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