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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will: l: |# Q7 m- r
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was4 e7 Z& e! ]$ |. T: d
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English F( z5 _3 e8 p4 }
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
% D" ?: j4 }, f' ?7 @! V6 v Bplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".6 Z1 F" }5 u' F! D8 s
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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( u+ \3 r5 h# D. c
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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. n5 \# U3 ~+ G2 W! S) e6 A @. Y0 nThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the T" o+ k& ^2 v2 U# R2 A$ I0 [! u) X
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 to
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is% c* D1 `. \* L2 [; [
disgrasful and it should go away." `8 `$ b8 y- v9 ~1 V1 `
( `2 q. {! W# PBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 N+ d! h( E: a: {' J: G! S$ R. r
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and& N; \( N4 a+ G# [0 M# K
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.0 ], m) ~: b- |; n7 O* E9 c; k
( Y. }% ]1 X% tZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
, m- I" _' T* H+ R! `% N; Hunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
6 ]) e. ]# V1 a" s2 ^( c4 E* gUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze w6 G- Q4 h; b( x2 ^
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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