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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will9 |. o/ M5 H$ J8 `- \
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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% v3 b& c$ i$ p3 MAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English" L" e6 R. w, L- K, i
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ f) T7 a6 ~8 Y0 ?" I! ~( C" p
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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" D. P- A! ~& Y) O8 ~3 VThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
* [; O7 {% k# g( Gkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the% @5 d# j9 W7 F1 G4 G
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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4 Q0 _+ @) c7 j4 V. N/ Z6 \In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to7 u1 Y4 a- I& y4 V/ A# i
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible., z6 N8 f- y; G( q0 J
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# H1 k X9 t, f7 S3 Q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is9 r2 a/ \! g4 X; \* ^" y
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
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4 y6 ~* r: {+ y, p3 |8 D! ^During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
; J2 E2 c5 Q7 p1 X# Y1 Fafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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' N/ I+ S* e# O7 n6 }8 aZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
1 p, p5 v& }8 c& m( ~understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 {- M; r$ K% @8 tUnd 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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