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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will. e9 m3 w& k6 Q8 v, ?
be 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- U0 ]2 ] a* Z8 |$ p8 C' k. c
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in3 E' k# G# ]# K( _$ U
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." {- D( m Q/ }' [
- |: |* _3 U _+ {: ~% \9 @* dIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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/ h* p) m1 L( t, VThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
; D* b6 P* C. d* p; Qkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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; ?/ E* u: E+ N9 ?There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; m; N5 b6 O$ y6 K, \troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like8 F2 C5 i& l: I
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to' s+ Q9 |3 c4 ^3 B7 P/ N8 j9 L1 j
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.& z* z1 a/ ?* c. d. e3 e/ U
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
: P3 l" [$ ^- N: u3 U" N0 R" ]ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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4 Q" R% \7 Y1 M* `' vAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
) S9 @ I2 w) x8 fdisgrasful and it should go away.
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6 y7 h2 s, t8 \" pBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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; T6 z: O, \' P; BDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
/ S3 t3 |$ v& safter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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2 ]) h5 |1 o1 i, MZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu& ]( p. R! }3 V/ d) q
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.+ k! L$ f! Y/ I7 R
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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6 g' k5 a: P9 jIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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