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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will; e+ R6 y5 @- J5 f" \6 r5 N7 E
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% F# v: _2 t1 o( G& r, Z
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in# ]/ F( A/ M9 X$ k: T
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".5 u& `" V+ j; w4 |8 E! F
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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, k- M7 L- l- m7 x& P0 G- t
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.. D$ i/ @( U( c* ?5 x( I
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; D- p* [) o! htroublesome "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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disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with/ i* i5 g7 m2 ]! e3 y1 I! O
"z" and "w" with "v".' F2 `+ R' R& v8 |
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and% u5 ~* v, l0 a" [
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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7 ~0 G( ], l- L0 cZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* l, m5 ?: x% ^+ P: S0 v
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 A5 `, r/ e$ O% H6 U H
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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8 F4 A9 S4 b, Y- L3 eIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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