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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will& }3 W2 f" ^& i4 _1 U- s
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was7 I4 A, x# V& v* D+ O% p
the other possibility.
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( j7 a: Q' [# r7 X( AAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
i* ~4 P! _: {4 rspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
4 d" ?& D5 W5 _5 W$ k% j. Q2 ]plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- C- L( ]: U6 e" k
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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. _! i1 T) a% p( t1 f; n
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.3 s6 E4 f5 n: E, N* W9 r
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4 F8 h: s! H* Z5 NThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
% ?$ e$ J4 X/ Z; _9 C9 @+ Qtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
% }/ U, @! S8 s+ O4 @$ Kfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to8 C, Q7 Q0 u3 I
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.4 M1 y6 B9 S5 c2 \! I
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# {) g* G. V5 M8 H. B
ben a deterent to akurate speling.% j6 K9 `4 \* x9 d
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is, ]( H% x6 k) ]7 p8 m
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
K5 E& y5 A4 h: d"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and. P9 b8 {4 T9 O. V- ~; G
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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" O* T" f# J6 E2 zZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
0 \3 ?2 q1 ~7 Qunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.& |) C. Y! W9 w0 |% C
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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: f& y' S7 k# x6 s- YIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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