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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! X) {6 u( N3 |6 a
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" s( m9 }4 k" o
the other possibility.. Y s$ G( i9 {
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English( |6 C M$ R* V l2 K3 O
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in6 n# M" b7 c: }9 Z* N
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." @# w' w1 u$ L/ R1 v( r5 ^
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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 up
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
c- Q* S1 w2 P3 Btroublesome "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 to0 z F0 l7 D- e4 c
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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& B* U: s- z! UGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always E S, W: B8 o H9 D+ D1 p4 g
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 is
) B4 C2 _/ h- mdisgrasful and it should go away.% z& c' b1 M- {
2 U; N' n1 M0 S* xBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with3 j3 z( ]+ ^8 ]; b8 Q
"z" and "w" with "v".
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. Y; P7 S& w; Q" x% }During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
& E+ |; |+ F$ f9 uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.- m3 {3 j* P( e3 r7 v2 d6 N
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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, i7 ~9 z8 n9 X& ~8 VIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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