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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will% r; \& G" E, e. x5 Z/ b; q8 I+ [
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was1 M& A0 ?6 m, p* J' L: |6 D
the other possibility.7 b5 z" n. X/ ^2 z3 s
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English8 e7 ^0 o( k* j1 }/ |/ ]+ f1 X" P
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
+ W' y- ~2 _7 U; w1 dplan 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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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up8 Y$ x' a* G+ z7 b8 P9 _4 X$ N
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: l* P# e L" Z$ ?2 R6 d
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
a5 E+ J( }. L* dtroublesome "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 to
9 F; j" x4 r0 ~1 W" ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.! I& P$ r7 l9 e. Y# O+ @
; C* s. o' t& n' UGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
) ^6 B) L, b. s. yben a deterent to akurate speling.. J. T5 ^( Y2 v' K( s2 q) q
/ @1 j; M$ S0 H1 M+ ]Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' X7 L1 `( z# a: z. i/ a1 Vdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# D8 }( @" F" m$ e
"z" and "w" with "v".3 e5 Z b5 T G" N J
R1 K6 c$ k1 P) q) k$ RDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and* t4 o/ a U; g/ _3 Q9 m
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 V6 m- O9 u: W/ o' S
1 f, o3 i4 [; pZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* v% r4 g% d# V0 ?4 Z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.# {; \. l" e: X+ k7 @8 O
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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T+ O; O" e2 \- U4 W$ O) v1 o" QIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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