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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
' Z0 o$ d, A# P+ fbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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/ ]; I1 a8 F' d! ~0 e* O6 W; KAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. e# @' b0 o; b
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ B* r: m5 O5 X t" J+ M
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." n! J, K5 i! v+ m }8 X
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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0 d; m/ Z/ P2 H( N: w5 QThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up& n8 `* ]/ Q7 J7 @+ o9 e7 {& M. `6 V
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.' H' T: @6 ?* r
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the3 Z/ Z5 n5 a! Y( N, G
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
2 [' K0 T! d. r# i$ G Wfotograf 20% shorter.( W" ^* a! s3 c- S+ q5 u) h
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to+ _! D" l7 G" T
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.0 m5 \: q- F9 t) r+ \$ }, `
) x( `7 ]- v/ [* z+ e8 @Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& l' t) L: e1 V0 r* B8 V* o( G
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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0 q: D' {& D2 N& O7 Z# E7 yAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is1 t) G$ \9 A1 p
disgrasful and it should go away.
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4 d! _" `9 q3 ]+ Y- v* GBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with5 K* a- M6 g3 O& B4 N
"z" and "w" with "v".6 c. E Y# k& n" V' \7 P, U9 M' H
4 n7 d* v5 g8 s6 b1 C4 eDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
" I% d& y/ B. P+ w" `after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., p+ _6 y9 O/ k
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu) p' A; l* d, S0 m5 U5 L
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.: z8 J8 [+ X* ]5 @
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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