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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will2 E1 M. c8 C; r( o( I3 q
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% K1 @ H) I5 W) R* F* a6 a
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
4 R; ~9 r" P1 X9 e1 V: Vplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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' j1 X; h; I( S: q8 MThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
- _" |; ]5 h3 j; Skonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
$ E* b' G- u9 Xtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like/ {# v: W* N f1 E& ^
fotograf 20% shorter.
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* r: B& I) b) }In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ m; d$ R# A4 T2 D- H5 nreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
& H5 x3 ^5 W: \* W7 K/ H% Q0 Wben a deterent to akurate speling.
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2 P/ P- i* A# IAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is0 c3 e& g4 P c; }! X) g
disgrasful and it should go away.
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1 H0 n% P* i/ a7 nBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
' Y: ?0 h! O) A% \8 J9 l"z" and "w" with "v".
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% r" X; M+ p2 xDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: }9 d. \. k! K9 ]- Y$ {; t
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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9 z1 V/ c# i" p. [3 A1 ~Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
$ l% L3 r B7 T& g( Q5 r; T0 cunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.# X% j# g. e( o6 f
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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6 W- t. O% g1 k& |If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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