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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
( X. b: A+ u3 @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 English9 H+ N" N: r7 B5 s; H
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& M. m* f+ u* h* _plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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/ p' l! |& v( D' j$ [$ IIn 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- y% T |1 d3 M4 @& S
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.) {. S1 r! _0 e$ W( u1 n' W$ M5 l
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" N j8 }, m( I/ X- y1 {There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: F4 [9 ]! _$ U: z6 N' Y+ \
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; r: Y, v3 H* p( ~' y
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to$ x# P" S0 G$ W, b7 ^. O& K4 i
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.( F4 P$ P9 ^$ X8 q& A# o! F3 R
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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& e: X. N5 _* Z; A3 n- EAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is. t1 t! C* ?, o3 B) j- e
disgrasful and it should go away.
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* O1 Q. x. W& N \* v+ P u( G: ^. }; {By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with- A) X, M* ^ a, D7 @/ i
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and6 J7 Q9 X# E3 u; Z" Z4 K
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.# l/ C4 o6 ^. e7 ^
8 n4 ~) h5 Q9 E# y h! j; z- O2 XZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
# Z* w/ h5 f% S1 Dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; S9 g+ L G7 y& QUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze9 U6 ?: i/ g9 R5 G. V
forst plas.
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) T: o9 r; N% h" q# kIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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