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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 Z+ \$ k) O+ d" A" E. W
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ _# @9 y/ m/ ?) e2 C3 `+ T6 d
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English! c, p, I d8 u# Z! I
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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7 o5 ~; Z" @+ a5 PThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up" |9 ~6 n# h* g& p
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.7 [) n6 `9 p, R! h5 i
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the; ?( I9 E2 }2 c+ Y( `
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
* |/ c4 b( R4 W% v3 Kreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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; L; {+ g. |& Q/ U: W5 W, U) _+ O0 VGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
4 C7 J3 I3 S" `# N5 iben a deterent to akurate speling./ N. E+ s- g, P/ A; d* w
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is* v% m, b% A$ K
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
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/ ?2 y" `, T) N* k7 F7 X/ ADuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and( ?; ?: V# A0 m- [( ^
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.% L6 A% J& c f$ q$ b9 F
# ?% a, ~: E n8 gZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu4 `" b) ~6 C3 T( h) ~
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
. V7 W6 F* N) [Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze/ V' i3 e& B$ p1 E# I6 [+ V; u2 |0 X
forst plas.
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! ?) p( B7 l: v# i8 Z% h, ^. oIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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