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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will7 @$ H4 V6 z8 e r) L4 ?, k0 s4 j
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
3 a- H9 M% ?8 m9 K- P7 Cthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English# X, W0 l5 A3 t8 r2 j( D" s; ]
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
/ H% i2 @9 g9 U/ P& [plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".' W, h& h! t$ Z# ?% r1 f( U% a
( u0 P* p# s/ bIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make' X B3 Z* C& r5 o" @
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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( [9 B) z( e1 t$ ZThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
& l3 W7 f- x' o& zkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.4 J7 b8 _" y3 ?9 i% r
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! J3 Y# t; i: f% I) X- hThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
% U4 _0 ~$ C+ W! R/ n1 ?1 Dtroublesome "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 to6 G5 A; L% a% S0 Q1 o6 P
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- R. U2 R3 s! U
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always7 ^2 h8 H) \, B, b) Z' H/ O
ben a deterent to akurate speling." j+ Y2 j& E+ n z7 N& I. E+ g3 c
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
, A( u) z1 f# M2 Mdisgrasful and it should go away.
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2 r) |) y, b: I) H+ l8 q8 p% Q0 ~By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with1 p3 m- Z# I& c2 Y1 v
"z" and "w" with "v"./ H: p. e6 i+ F- V( L
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and q5 [% w. a+ G% m% \, \4 Z
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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3 v* G6 y& E# o, t2 `/ K" oZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
) g0 H% \$ e( n& Bunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 B& w7 o9 G. S) X
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze _# @. i) ?. A. p4 \- m% u6 E
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. u/ y, i5 [- t) S5 ^9 c# DIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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