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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ X% m3 {) v1 C3 k+ L
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was+ E9 [* X M1 ?
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English# _! z. a+ u( X; B$ J- e0 [
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
; }5 y( Z& G' {0 z9 {0 ~- Pplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".0 ^# M) l& s4 n9 c: j
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make% C( s9 x' h, \
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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; x, J' W6 u2 e- F" S2 O. lThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
" i; q' J( e6 `, Xkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
+ Y6 j) S5 T7 J3 w/ a4 X' K: O: dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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0 M6 d2 R% T1 s* [8 VIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to/ V4 S/ H9 y0 E* K
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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1 B" P) n# y- k9 q U, [Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always2 f: h. ~0 h& Y! z. O
ben a deterent to akurate speling.9 U4 o4 \- z* n5 ~" t' u$ A3 ]
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is- s$ j5 ~5 _2 @8 u
disgrasful and it should go away.9 E$ h, H8 ?! c$ e+ e% r
; R: E' V6 m9 YBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with* V" z+ B2 T1 o% R% e
"z" and "w" with "v".
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P p$ a$ k! _9 z# O/ HDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and! L3 }$ Z, c- {5 S6 P( L5 G
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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7 T& T4 [& n/ TZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu% P4 E$ Y$ v4 W
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 J; Y0 R0 N- k- w. d0 CUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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# b& \0 }4 V& I* r2 N4 ^' XIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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