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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will" g! [% n6 f8 O! [2 @
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was% b. K- f8 i2 b# u4 R. J0 z
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S2 U6 u% ^ U& O. A2 K$ d% i) \As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
" C" C. Z) w' i( ]6 y/ W1 _spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in) J4 j5 E; A! Y D. e
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".+ {7 e( `1 |6 }7 {/ Y: p
1 n5 |! p2 Z( ?0 LIn 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
* F: K; O, D, B8 f) [- A5 qkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.- i9 f. F8 Y( @% u7 _
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1 u5 Z0 v6 ?' B" c; c1 I' LThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
- o/ H" t* l# ]* d3 H- E" ^. p: a1 Rtroublesome "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 to9 V: v2 a/ r! y$ V R! @6 E R
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.0 r! `# }- l2 y l$ B
/ C# B: }9 ^6 dGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
) r8 }/ [; b7 W4 xben a deterent to akurate speling.: R* B8 z/ ~1 T' L- _; M
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 Z3 ^6 S1 a4 L6 k4 j
disgrasful and it should go away.
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) v0 x h* t# `9 FBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
" i! l, z/ E# M6 t0 \+ p"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" g. n! X+ _( a
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, B( N* W, B* R7 ?
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
& o% T0 ~3 R8 J+ w9 `6 ^! \* lUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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3 y% m4 O2 w7 C* `2 y9 vIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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