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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
& |$ k7 g. }. u7 |4 rbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
6 k1 v3 F$ A9 q4 N4 hspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in1 `7 N9 \ R) @% A9 i2 R% t, Q
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ {7 a* t* X6 L- ]+ V" f' v" p
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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D# m2 D5 q3 n1 \# k( ^+ qThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
9 a- a+ i+ X0 s3 y) z3 Fkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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# g) J6 ?) z' P$ CThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
) s% Q, r. N1 s, wtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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% ]! B- ]6 c: {9 {$ p) Z0 yIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to& O1 _' _# b0 ?) D& g
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.0 `) T+ L$ w8 f) X2 g0 r- N
, g: m6 C: a% q1 ~+ d$ ?Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
: c n; U7 R( K5 U5 a# Sben a deterent to akurate speling.: j& H, L* j5 C. j
: _9 B! [5 o! B% ]1 a: U8 BAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
# D; C" v# M& n8 G( S) q6 Edisgrasful and it should go away.3 J# H6 P& ]; Q+ D. a$ ?, [8 s- @
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ @% Z+ c* G8 w9 _9 } U" ?
"z" and "w" with "v".
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% @$ W9 `# }3 z0 x5 R% FDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
; q7 }8 p; X3 T H6 dafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.9 b4 \8 s& t' J2 |9 Y f4 |
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: A e' e' V, b, ]
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.( o5 a( k: A5 G) ^. p0 u$ K/ O
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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" R3 {6 A* K! K+ g$ R# f) o; AIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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