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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will1 @# b$ b! |" w+ s! @& C/ f2 o
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was. B3 R2 I, E+ F( S$ U5 V0 d
the other possibility.
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# B/ k% [. g7 p5 kAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English; [4 ], [7 E* M0 ]: e4 x+ q! J5 g
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
2 N$ ~" }' o" z, \plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
+ S6 ~" {% R8 U0 \: B% |the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# w7 d% P; O8 \1 u1 o0 t
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
% d' N! m) a) `7 {fotograf 20% shorter.
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2 [7 G* ^: P, e( H& L5 _In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
- X- m- M; p$ ~* Yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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( ^# I' z4 u& R2 [& d& pAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is1 Q8 r3 B2 K$ f, u: c
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) O! Z0 Q# y7 _$ z3 g" Y* ]5 {6 I
"z" and "w" with "v".
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( o) S v) g# S. HDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* s4 M5 C |/ p1 E _# Q& tafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 w! X5 P& e- B
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze X- l. I! C( i5 c
forst plas.
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w- ?4 Q5 ~3 k' o2 `* s Q6 sIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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