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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 L2 I- l) @+ O' o3 u9 d D
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was4 ]% c8 D. l/ U6 f% m x) n
the other possibility.: ^' p9 G6 `0 C0 E0 s& d
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English* K) G: W" J9 j3 n7 l! {: I" C
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in* i, N5 L6 j2 |6 D/ Q( @: O# a$ W
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".. D( z% C t( r, z1 R, y* Z
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make% B8 z- M4 H0 O. P
the sivil servants jump with joy., `, _5 B! d, }) E; ~+ r: F# l% X
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up1 `7 G: h" m/ N$ }) _' A! y l
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.2 [+ U, p }5 m0 J* c8 N1 ?
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
- l9 u0 `+ _& f" B% d7 Btroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 C5 ?. o8 M0 T- @6 jreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# N# B7 T/ Q1 Z$ @
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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' t3 |. r2 H% U" ^8 z$ Q$ f D: PAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is# R9 w: r) k- J, W. a p% o: N
disgrasful and it should go away.: p$ l7 { C# i5 t
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( `# z7 z( ] W+ z
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, J: m: a- o/ a& o' s: v' Safter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.( ?" y5 L0 G1 \ y% E. O* h
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" ?- ], C. N) Yunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru., n8 n1 C1 H4 k1 `% k
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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