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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will F& W4 h' ?5 A' ?/ J
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was8 l5 Y) O: `, @* K8 g
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English: R# J9 {* T6 Y. W$ n& ^8 L
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
" d/ D) F. n' t- Z) n& p7 H; xplan 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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5 o" [+ \& e" b8 Y: C* V5 iThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; N2 v( @' E9 ^& n1 F. I. n( k8 L
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
0 L' [4 P5 u# h6 Vtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 m& Q/ O! a2 Y
fotograf 20% shorter.4 D1 @ O% Y' b+ b$ p8 O6 s; F
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
0 |: L! u% ^" j0 ?% b3 W! r5 f' ?reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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K# q' Q8 A; T8 kGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always/ ^% J' h- [" A' n
ben a deterent to akurate speling.0 P! J e( y. Z; E
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is% B C; T% q+ v+ j3 h5 k
disgrasful and it should go away.3 I9 f# I' e) A, K
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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8 [( |5 T3 Z1 C1 e0 [1 n BDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and5 C; @/ U# G: A$ A+ y; l
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.0 p4 `# ]; }6 P4 g8 Y
3 r* D" U! l& j) dZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu0 j* M. a% n+ r
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.5 u: g" o7 ~( C
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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