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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will1 v3 D5 D7 m% ]* \% Z
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
' _$ e1 j6 g! z0 ?% j- z6 Ythe other possibility.2 J7 y7 [# S7 ^1 v3 D. [
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English9 i, M1 s! W/ E1 [5 {+ p3 h' y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in9 ?* H" P+ r; p! l' Y8 M/ K5 e. P
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".8 F! R) e5 ~1 v+ Z
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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0 j4 O( }: ^5 OThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up2 z2 @4 w7 ^8 I% D, k: l. L/ x% D7 X9 X
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.4 ?% a0 s) W/ K% ]# u0 k
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
( h* \% ^ x& \troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 M. i8 h' o) y/ ]5 Q5 n9 t& Jfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' I+ G, z" s! l0 i! t1 @reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.( ^ p5 i- w6 @$ Z) f& J
* \- G! ?+ q# T. u" i4 }3 l1 ]: ~Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# g" h! U1 z( z8 h" Y; `3 O
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 is6 b4 {' G) H4 L% P: A
disgrasful and it should go away.
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P" U* r% ?; BBy 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
?( e2 @$ R9 E* `* k% h2 q, Rafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.! ?8 K- `; F- c9 W% k Q; ]
% Q7 F: v: o) S, O6 K B' d! ]( yZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu3 b+ ~! H Q( n
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
1 U/ C/ V0 ~- w' r" GUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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% x, {: J- L7 a# n1 L7 CIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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