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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will; _- J2 X% Q0 q' j" [! `5 J9 k6 w
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English, E) c) G+ h% J+ {' S' K
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
# ^1 Q% L! A$ J; |1 ?5 Hplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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# l* s& m" k% I, }7 xIn 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; P6 h# P/ J8 n
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.1 z# z. u5 a, M3 s" W4 }
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, F f8 \' n" n1 vtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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8 ~; a( o; ?! g2 QIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
& C, r, P% P6 G3 z% h4 L1 c) 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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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is/ s$ ~: s3 Q7 S2 D3 ~# H& W
disgrasful and it should go away.( j4 d; [3 c0 f# d
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. ]7 \8 R8 T* @; X) ~' }after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) X8 x8 b, }/ E( |+ O6 _
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
: f6 ]9 Z0 H: {- H, S4 qunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
, I& v8 @8 o+ i/ O `Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze# Z V6 g4 ~! w# X' k* P+ S
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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