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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will9 i; n8 B# C! s5 R5 d X f2 w
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 e; W) b( b) N2 I- M' ~ t* Q
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
1 k, c" T3 `% P9 s% w2 Y" P xspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
" g- M$ W- @' ~; M. ?4 S8 Y/ |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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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up! R) m! ^; f: l& Q( b" V+ E! L
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 Y) q, X% I w
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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+ I2 I. x6 Q( P! AAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is7 r: I" [* q) s0 M: ^3 ^- v
disgrasful and it should go away.) m" [. X4 Y) {" ~% @ D8 O7 l+ ]- V! e, ?
7 }! e/ ^: ?; S( M5 x; XBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with. z7 I# L! M) b' t9 R4 `5 l
"z" and "w" with "v"./ w% S5 G% f/ _# J
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and' P, Y$ }8 u7 g7 M7 P
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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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
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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