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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- d5 J2 @& c& c
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 f1 n$ v' n& Y N* D% R
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
5 x D; [; Q; K% ]5 ^+ wspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
. d4 g+ H6 T; z1 B8 D8 `9 zplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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! i$ E5 z# {# m5 ]" O6 A" |* `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# z. u# c/ d4 P" l2 L* _
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., o" y* e) n* u. `- B
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9 i8 D2 H5 h* XThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the. r5 Z! `) a0 z1 Y
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
/ Z- Z1 J1 x5 I2 U b3 X6 Zfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to9 Z) U" n9 V/ [. O4 Q
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible., g1 \" B, m, S( b" C
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always7 ]" Z) ~% \6 m* q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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. k) }% |! g3 k) |. {) E- s. l: i yAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
7 e, [; C, w* ?" |. ~disgrasful and it should go away.. S! `' S4 A0 n( z' R
+ q/ ? L3 k4 S! HBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ } X- V. J3 n S% J
"z" and "w" with "v".
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/ @) p7 z7 O1 z+ ?During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and& g: f! U/ q/ l* E
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.0 t; ?" g: l, v2 y/ l1 M @9 p* a
2 C% W" q9 o, E9 b( v% UZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. l( c& f7 ?. x, {understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.+ {, X, X5 o% B' z
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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