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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will- Z8 q! w9 y2 o9 O! Y. d
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
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1 Z4 H' s4 @; h5 {+ YIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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9 V+ ^5 }: E, x# uThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up- N1 O- ?% Q( B+ }) Q( [
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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' q: q4 a9 u$ i9 A2 E. F$ jThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the% `; @1 _* U0 z( F j" s7 l
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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) i8 Z7 ^$ y9 h X& a) c5 D) OIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to; B h6 T( a! i0 [
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.0 P# n( s" N C' b* y* j
+ d, z: C3 h/ p C. L0 fGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# Q. m# n3 |/ w8 s- Y
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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$ s+ N+ [6 d' U2 t4 lAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 Y; o, T& ~2 i8 y, P+ f) M
disgrasful and it should go away.0 b" g- u1 B( I& v+ V% b y
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 {+ h5 o# q& Z4 \
"z" and "w" with "v"." x" ~' t- b7 b9 r4 I' G
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and- W: ~& p8 |! g/ Z9 a1 w/ i, c* [) _
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl./ v7 K' r# o& I* @- K2 N$ p: s
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu% ?$ }, `$ y; u- i
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.* @4 ^2 U9 E5 `% v: L% A/ e& n
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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