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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
* H r. Z% _5 ~; I0 V6 I% t. vbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 J) ^/ _$ e9 _) k$ u& o
the other possibility.* {0 D9 s$ U( i' S) Y
) `+ e4 Q6 s. q8 l. l5 rAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
' H5 @5 T8 J* t4 uspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in7 W2 v0 V) f/ H
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
: @' K7 \. p4 h; Pthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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$ Z% ]/ P: S6 j6 zThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ |2 G! F- j3 D ?0 x' o8 E
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ p M% Z. s2 ^9 |+ ]
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9 }$ C3 K' ?8 |- [There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the8 C; i1 W$ C7 i7 F0 m& q
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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0 w! r3 x/ ~' w6 QIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
0 ]8 k/ M9 q0 g% V' Ereach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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- S/ s+ }. u4 Q0 l1 Z* Z' D* tGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always; n2 }/ Y9 w# h1 M2 e
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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, F( Y2 \; H: M$ y. B! _4 [Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is) I, j# P2 i: z
disgrasful and it should go away.4 U/ ?3 {5 k4 e7 V0 n
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with0 C, J. ]8 [# M; J' Z# q0 [
"z" and "w" with "v".- P, d8 y: B3 [% ^- z' T: M) Q7 v- E
$ j5 h. N! k$ S" ~" A b, MDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and+ a1 ^: S8 r; S; G! v
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.8 I2 j- i; e ]
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu/ m7 ^3 a! o6 q4 ?
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
. x7 W: q" P: OUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze( B2 ~5 h( \4 f+ ?9 W" n
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1 c, T, ^8 E$ \; X; L0 V w1 HIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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