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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
/ W6 I7 V5 M6 E' Y& u8 x" {" F% pbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was' J% A. N- S( k; S6 A
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
) j/ h, K+ K4 I- z9 Z8 ^3 wspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& i3 q6 y) F8 x, V9 ]9 a8 Eplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
- }. R5 D. ?/ O" A4 Ithe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; M# p& G* U$ U3 o g4 Y+ K
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ Y7 @/ l7 x' K9 x2 ^4 m |; [
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+ s% f7 w( p! @( O# U+ {There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the) w L9 J: r' ]
troublesome "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
" |8 w5 Q h/ B. y7 Breach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: n/ g$ p) |( r. x
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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) i( G0 P2 Y' ` y# Q9 \4 l3 u; EAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
Y4 ]7 O! f6 ^0 t, mdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with5 y ]6 \% H g
"z" and "w" with "v".. C! ^3 X; O% O4 d s
0 X6 J8 @# g8 P1 `8 bDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
+ c3 |9 E- Y% A* K& z% `, qafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: q! p! X6 c7 E: O$ S6 S8 \
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 N. h' k& \* @( @Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 S- x' V) d1 u. J! ?* _0 N; f2 [
forst plas.
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7 \# v* v. M6 `+ T* t* _# aIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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