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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
7 L4 w6 v Q0 n& F/ b; Wbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was. v4 `! f1 G# v) J7 Y. ~! y$ `, j
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% u" F! V* h5 |& v7 F0 f# vAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
9 B+ [- K2 W5 E0 z3 `* z9 ^spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in5 s$ K1 F, P6 ]& Q
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".( p. W/ ^1 X7 k" @# {
9 ]9 Z7 E3 s) W" w- [" y7 A! @' ?! xIn 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 up
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
! L" Z( F( v: Y; F+ Ftroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like. D: `9 @1 _- s8 k8 P: z
fotograf 20% shorter.3 ^% O- f0 d/ I! I3 O* ~
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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/ _/ {! a) O% z/ E/ W( R; i/ B" ?Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" K5 @' C; A( n1 d
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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* G8 O. K1 y$ X d% j) J* \* b; NAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is1 |- `1 @# R5 V1 m* ?
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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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: s n3 y8 m1 `; v i1 s9 s
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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; ^3 n! T8 |) KZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
$ P- R$ N! Y: J' F/ bunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 [' T. {, y2 v/ C% Q
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze) j2 l4 O( R& L% ], B& R
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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