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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will8 D6 q6 V! N+ k) Z& a2 f5 T/ f" i
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
9 l, M4 @- b. D9 Fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
. W8 j- p1 _3 y. Bplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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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
" Y7 v4 w1 g: b/ m9 lkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
+ i2 Y' b& u- v6 m$ Q( A y' [& etroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
+ t4 t3 J. R, Y+ zfotograf 20% shorter.
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$ }' K4 B9 e% {% ^: BIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to9 x4 o9 v, O) i/ H+ H3 @
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.1 r( q* _+ ^' u& Q& w
* T0 |8 g7 M$ @: u6 UGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& L& _* t: _+ N- h) A
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 E. B( U: L- E9 D0 ?2 B% |
disgrasful and it should go away.
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. r0 m5 p0 \0 i% {' z6 R. H4 Z$ dBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ p( Y4 F' \# [3 X6 i
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
3 X2 F' ]% E A& Y2 Hafter 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
* |. `+ c |5 V* Y6 y: K. [understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
( q: q7 |: ^3 o: pUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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5 O2 ^2 A8 J; \% K( D5 S/ CIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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