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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will: l' G# M1 ?. P/ N) `; P/ C
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was) \$ z" L1 E* N M% p" T/ p" ]5 Z
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English) C4 z- S& v- \: n# p1 f
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 \$ @: P% T. y. u9 o6 C/ {: U
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".8 z2 d. j3 [$ {1 _! @" w
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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) y) y( F, W& K. `% dThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up0 F0 S* l1 V" ?: l- ]- p
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, n2 [& M5 V9 |6 X1 ~7 |( J
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like: P) L: x0 G) {1 u9 d1 T
fotograf 20% shorter.2 I. S2 O5 ]" A; [5 E. z
* c0 `) R# v4 l# v- a* H0 T+ k$ @In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to/ ^, o$ o) X1 |
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.& ]% r5 {8 R( a$ b2 Z
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always/ C$ q/ f: Y0 w7 n+ A* \. @7 G( W
ben a deterent to akurate speling." U; O& L& K @
; N5 v) y) Z" M$ m* pAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 ~( ~( Q" B0 S: S2 q5 p" z; [
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with- Q6 y1 D% ~4 m$ }
"z" and "w" with "v".
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* h- [- f/ N: d- r4 _During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
- `. }$ e: b$ j! ]2 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
& o" b4 ~6 s. x3 l% qunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
2 q4 R/ n$ [' ~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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