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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will" O- s! T+ q6 t# o
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was2 ~: ]4 |9 L) \% b0 D) }
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English r* I/ q: o) d8 {6 ^
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
' [8 ]2 J+ ^( ~$ T+ z4 q/ @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
7 t$ ^2 T7 `( ^6 m6 Xthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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$ \( T3 P' M O$ dThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
; C5 P% i, b: W4 v K1 Wkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.2 p$ u5 @9 R0 i/ h" W
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
. z1 |5 y9 k0 R) R, C/ U# B- G( itroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like x( L* p; o: ^- p6 p- f
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to- y1 v* T8 C; r; H$ i* x
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.3 H/ j4 x5 `5 C' D8 ^1 i r/ d
8 o9 }% h' M4 D0 }6 j. vGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always. }, }4 x- b$ j" \ _* n6 F z
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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$ d/ m4 _ l, z' K1 {- O5 V1 o8 CAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
* l1 V, A6 C' [) ~, Q2 M7 B7 xdisgrasful and it should go away.( [2 j3 }2 ^! S7 D- _
* }1 q( s$ a5 E: _By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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: o3 V5 d" T! u8 C; _4 }During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and- N$ ?# H& e% @- ?) k
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 M7 Y; O! a: X
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
) h U. n" m+ T! M1 n8 e6 Z1 {understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
* P2 F2 j6 K3 o& ~) d& oUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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. V4 |! ~8 ?; V6 Z6 g# O* A6 UIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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