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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
4 a/ O% C9 y& Cbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was: d; D3 _! x: T
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
* ^7 p( |' A; o7 w" a3 Kspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
5 `$ U. ?: U) o# H+ oplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish". I0 B: u# g8 f+ V5 F1 F" l
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In 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
0 Z4 |0 G0 V1 p9 S6 Fkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
3 o1 c$ t7 [* Z7 ltroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
' f0 _# A: q1 E+ l! ofotograf 20% shorter.) q1 c6 e1 c8 L/ B# S; o x' @
9 U6 K, o% o! a* N" M- zIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to2 B! d+ \, I; |: j( A) t
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.9 y, J$ a3 a7 f! Y1 K5 O- Q
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
8 W3 t$ Y5 m. Hben a deterent to akurate speling.) R. G2 p9 j/ n. F+ }* \; J
6 A; m4 g4 a, F! }3 X" i7 Z1 R1 w8 {Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is, K- t7 j8 y" K2 U" u$ S8 F/ ^; g
disgrasful and it should go away.
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; {4 a6 S2 O/ Z$ d9 n: bBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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' {; _1 i. Q" q) oDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
+ z9 g9 t3 v8 f' ]3 r. S3 \: N$ dafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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4 @) C/ [0 P8 @* ZZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
3 w* z( }2 g4 ], a5 }understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 [) e' X: _. }( h" G4 j' p0 yUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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( f" J' z+ l; N( F/ @* R8 f6 DIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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