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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will# Y; X. B2 m/ |7 S4 `0 C' g- N% N
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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( d3 D' D, \* V& w1 F0 Q" qAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English+ }7 E! b5 _+ F7 T" v4 g! K
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
1 q% X/ K9 L7 W) ?" X& {8 o M$ w: f0 Mplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".( u, ` f' J" m" E2 i" }6 `
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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( V5 P4 X& c( g* ~The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: C* K: l6 @9 u' j! O. V% ~- M
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the/ P5 O0 g S# {* v/ D
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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8 B6 S1 z' ^: D9 M) _' S- I9 W4 hIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ m7 o; C& q, m6 n2 Z, H2 F. @7 O' P& Treach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.' J7 c d7 [; g8 H( Q
+ E3 T0 X: @* U. c% u% v# QGovernments 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 is8 m7 e$ l/ e! M! b1 @
disgrasful and it should go away.
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3 u* o9 u( e7 N' dBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 l# l5 j/ `: I
"z" and "w" with "v".
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) ^+ c( \, d* A" YDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ s, w; }! j+ g, \* ]after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 A- E" @0 z$ i* _0 C
% |$ D6 v# W0 }$ }. e' oZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
$ |" Z: ^: H% G7 ?9 W% P5 runderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
' h1 f! z% j0 u' A* ~' UUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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. \; A9 Y# a8 Q7 MIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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