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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will. S, X8 @+ @0 s) c ^$ v$ I
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was+ c3 R, w( p* q, P' i% J
the other possibility.( }9 z6 q. m! ?: W! [) _- ?9 H/ \
) C) k$ C/ q' f; a" KAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English$ z; a+ I/ d5 H& A1 h9 g
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
, c& u0 }4 T2 N+ ^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
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# a. D9 f) a, \6 AThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ x! L% M/ `, m, W
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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9 s5 Z0 M; w* M w3 B+ f/ Z' r# |7 wThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, J! Y. Y) K7 z4 h. E) I5 V. ^troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 J# g) x; s: |5 E
fotograf 20% shorter.
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4 `! A7 l9 l. Z% |. v0 V B* tIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to7 H- H" m& @& W( [' q
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
1 }' I$ [5 e4 D$ _, q! n) m& w7 f/ iben a deterent to akurate speling.0 Y2 f2 n2 X2 r% s/ [
+ U z1 K" V3 p1 WAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 G6 D- T8 f( l4 ?' v/ P/ Q
disgrasful and it should go away.1 V% N& h1 N: Z. A1 ^5 S3 _0 d
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with& e- I1 u2 Q* [) x% b. [% P
"z" and "w" with "v".. D4 y D: E; c. a4 H# @
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
0 K0 ?: {$ u' c: n% lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 {3 N8 N7 m$ ^
0 Z, C3 ]4 q" r4 j* U5 O3 bZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu" ?) ^" n( x! e8 f; W
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 w! A+ i: ?+ i$ v: e6 XUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze; i( W3 G7 }( c& E9 W
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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