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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will# [3 _. B: d' o- |4 ]0 Z- K
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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# O) a" s5 c- P oAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
3 O7 v% F3 u! ?$ L6 Hspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
7 g, g' s! ]9 H$ l; U! _. Uplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- C7 i* q4 `$ ?9 B
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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3 v D. s$ }: D3 M" K7 { u6 tThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ ~3 ?0 O g: z; Ikonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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/ p& y2 T b9 E( ~! {There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: q1 O8 F5 v4 B- @ T" }/ k8 dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
: J% E) D! T% l" E; V- B3 ~fotograf 20% shorter.
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, I/ n) B, b7 Z8 G ~) zIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
& r0 l8 P3 b: m, Lreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.+ p3 c/ k; h( q1 B: O& u
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
. _# Y0 Z* N6 G0 gben a deterent to akurate speling.
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" `, G! v! N) v; o1 w/ UAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is6 A( ^7 u: z- d. j5 n2 ~
disgrasful and it should go away.' Y; Q" c. _& P, l+ Y: W
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! Q7 E4 e0 @& A, \" Z- W
"z" and "w" with "v".8 W+ p9 n4 ]( o% k* g! f! G' R
9 b1 t- u z1 LDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 J$ z' v* j- G {: [- B% H
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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/ d' [3 A/ K' PZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu- y/ [+ q; [ X: N
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; ?( ~/ }5 Q3 J; k2 r9 c; m4 [Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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& t3 E: N* W+ f' T9 n9 N/ L d0 uIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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