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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
% N* h. S7 @; A5 Zbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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7 ?# F i" `1 d4 X5 y$ q6 XAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English, h) t6 M. s/ v! x% x* ?3 x
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 i* | g# a! |# Y6 r+ ^/ k: {
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".. B/ G$ `& Z" ~7 [
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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7 k$ g! W ]' M! Q+ ~+ W# K6 RThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up2 Y1 e% \3 s* T! N
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
. S9 g& \& d! t* C+ B; ~troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like0 |. B- T9 d7 T6 g# }) D1 r# C( |' y
fotograf 20% shorter.
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! o& N. l$ j7 r) X# \* MIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to2 M9 o) s) o7 ?1 X+ S2 R
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always, _- i$ T! `: \4 h2 M& ~
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 is5 m [# T* M& D! c5 Q
disgrasful and it should go away.
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" c% i$ M2 O# A4 c+ @) S& ]. iBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with- _4 P% ]1 M# C. ?* k* P: b
"z" and "w" with "v".! e# A" Y+ H) Y' }
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
8 ]+ Y3 U% ]# O7 C. G6 |0 t* 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! c6 O; S+ n& L6 d
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru., J0 ] O2 b, b$ e# n& Q
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze" @% M; L# ?: C! @8 m
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2 i. x' f0 C% {) a w" GIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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