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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ F, b& q* _! F1 f6 I4 {- M3 c" M
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
/ O. X& G8 F* C* o: Wspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* C8 ]; Y1 z/ J+ b- E' Mplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".' u7 l2 L" ?3 }
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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( {/ C5 Y$ r5 |7 g- m
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.' t3 ?1 c! O4 i- ]; k
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ O& D4 q. V& C3 C# s: _/ p1 ?# xtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like7 L1 ~: V/ h0 D4 @6 c9 a( a
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
+ {$ a. l; l7 L! t- Preach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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2 N6 C2 @$ b2 ^. ]% l! a& sGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 L- ]$ z$ S( v% x/ u9 a, ? O# vben a deterent to akurate speling.- \' [( z" b) v
+ Z& q* Z8 n' m1 K) {6 O1 m- b gAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
. W- T( i- ? j1 edisgrasful and it should go away.+ S, |3 K( S, d% |" h* i
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with/ S% W8 ^% e6 o3 p+ S7 l
"z" and "w" with "v".
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0 r1 k* [* U ]. L M5 U- X) u5 KDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
& q( C0 v: ?3 B* w& t( Y, R: eafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.% {/ H& C: n. I2 M6 @1 V- E4 r
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* I- {$ q: B0 M8 Y# `2 e
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.1 P7 M2 {8 }. A" u, `
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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