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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
' e9 T& p' r; j5 _3 i6 e' Ibe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was& Y+ `' @' {/ F9 N. S/ q6 t$ A
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English" V1 H/ w9 \; ^
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
_5 s/ t8 m2 ~) W# D9 mplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% O z* P# ^3 P& B+ N
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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 up6 J+ O) I; U. E7 _/ f) H' X( |
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.2 O& g, M% l- U4 J4 E. O) G) Y0 `
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the' O% w3 Q ?) t- q
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 t$ M% ]; P( E9 e
fotograf 20% shorter./ {+ w! I8 f" m
8 l, g: S' w4 U8 wIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
* n& q: }, D+ [" z0 g6 r" Qreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.5 X8 T( a B+ w7 x. r
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
# a1 L, G) j) d4 y$ Q5 s) U1 Zben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
0 j- Y1 ^4 Y, e- L5 Jdisgrasful 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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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 E9 |) z% q" T: ^' @
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.* b0 J6 g; g+ l1 X0 f
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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+ W. r5 t* g% t& ]9 `
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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