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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' m1 L o/ o+ F8 h1 X" E
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was9 ~& z/ r4 _2 E* E) \
the other possibility.
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% G: Y% Q& u% {. P) CAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. [1 T5 _2 t1 J+ {# W4 z0 o
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in( H3 @2 M: G# _' }3 }2 h
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
?4 }5 l4 x- C& x8 Othe sivil servants jump with joy.
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, `9 x* N' h* f9 w$ D/ z5 O/ a! lThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ w) v X$ |9 s
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the% h8 h4 Z8 h2 G0 r
troublesome "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 to4 ~1 Q7 O# \' u# y) P$ C6 _% }8 ?% D, @
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.# u/ |6 k0 h% ^* X
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
# B" b2 G& T- f. D, B7 Y3 B3 Z) Dben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
$ h0 A9 W9 r- r$ R& z! Zdisgrasful and it should go away.1 ^* z/ i" C% U) e
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with2 W/ ]+ E5 ~2 W
"z" and "w" with "v".
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) i: T1 y( z( j: e9 KDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
1 B/ l2 f0 y" b+ b* C/ @6 @after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 L8 ?$ U- U- a, z3 S/ A) m
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
) P% [8 C8 j: P4 ]understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
1 k8 G4 s$ m, AUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze+ [1 y3 c% U; s. ^
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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