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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ c; k# L. p& y
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# O. j5 |2 L" K$ V! `+ l/ e! v x
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English$ b1 X6 _0 @' ^, \' l9 K& \
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
$ k: M! e: m) Q4 W: O9 }6 zplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".+ ]. Y! e9 p/ [3 r+ s' m
* L% e6 J* O) r! z' j6 @0 m$ XIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
) x8 Z" ^$ T+ Y, _) kthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
' \; ^' Q* [1 {0 H4 v. l) Nkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.6 F4 ^, T8 n" p3 g {
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the' l& L; A. c4 U5 {) ?
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like- G: _' m1 \8 v2 D( l: F
fotograf 20% shorter.
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( V% A# t9 _1 [2 D( E6 AIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to9 `8 u( a* _" |$ }/ g& B
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 x5 \, ]$ u# S3 vben a deterent to akurate speling.
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6 ?2 @: Z, ?1 [ h6 Y! I5 K, oAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
4 |& Q& |# x vdisgrasful and it should go away.( J' O( n/ H l& g; Z) c* f
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
8 d" I# ?8 D6 C+ g: [8 c0 \"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and, E I) I1 X8 g |7 {( E8 C
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
$ e. T& n N3 Tunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.# _$ X7 s+ V* Z6 O& _9 q
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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( |6 m# i: b) i% t# UIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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