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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
3 D+ K: x7 M4 r: q, l* Hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was0 M9 P- c% G4 N4 o y# U
the other possibility.$ H0 L( L P# T ~$ c3 E
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English$ @1 x2 C2 O# a L1 j% P
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 e& D% H: | b" p- f" D
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".0 q! M0 p. G- x& a$ x1 x
3 p% h/ y2 `% |& f0 pIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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+ r, d6 C: C1 i2 hThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up ?- k, l% u ]* X9 y) H
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., T5 D2 J6 E _9 a- L
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# P i: P6 h9 t0 b
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like. f. K! h2 a- D
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
; t% `8 O+ ?; @3 x7 Nreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* r; Y- R9 v7 g4 V$ c
# t M( C, v, t, F, u7 SGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always3 J/ j: H/ l' u& V+ v* i
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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1 S' G% i# s( T0 u* F; ZAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is `6 J+ k ^7 _+ r6 U; Z
disgrasful and it should go away.0 V k' G, h- ?- i% A" R
9 N$ K/ {8 j- L/ G9 o5 ]+ GBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with4 r. f7 }3 F! z& U2 Z& h
"z" and "w" with "v".. [ Z& y B8 b; j* N, Y
f% _! w$ |7 T, L" v+ I' L$ WDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 J0 l- R+ x/ `) v! xafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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: i I& m) w( V1 o. I- W5 P9 xZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
1 H: T4 W6 f; O/ [5 f" funderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
$ Z, V/ W9 B/ m1 _6 L3 [Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze/ N Q* T) o: ^6 I$ L2 @
forst plas.
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7 p+ A) E1 Z/ f* f3 {5 e6 YIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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