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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 ]$ h( p) I2 G' {
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was; v6 i* x. B4 n7 T& q
the other possibility.$ A1 v2 l) ]/ B/ p
1 O2 I3 j4 Y. a( C/ a4 }As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
/ H4 P" S( c; C$ X8 x$ G/ Ispelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
; s! l# t R9 hplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".3 r2 f. [- b( P, ^+ z
1 B9 {8 a) B1 x" CIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
) n6 z( v! H0 @4 I4 u1 othe sivil servants jump with joy.
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1 B0 N/ L+ U6 p( N8 F, U1 L5 u( CThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
/ a1 F' o9 l o X9 A5 vkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.; t* ^2 I1 B+ ^: f1 H$ @$ u
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# ~+ |" Y6 e/ @/ N g! _7 b, n v
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like, {# k3 R0 t% E8 x- |
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
; Y( F7 D+ a( O. w$ u- P% xreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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7 J/ j/ X, a) Y$ zGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always6 v( T8 j3 I5 O# `9 T1 d; N
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 is# s9 x9 i1 b- k ^
disgrasful and it should go away.
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I' B1 p0 M- _) h% Y4 j' ^8 \9 HBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with, A, C1 T' f) r0 K# c0 ^
"z" and "w" with "v".! m% f$ X) R. X0 y
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" }; w. [) u" M
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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6 A; U0 h9 {; B0 O3 qZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu9 [0 |) E( z5 G y9 d
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
& C& D0 b" n+ y7 x+ d; @0 tUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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* T6 V5 k, I. }+ ^/ ` iIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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