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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will" W2 E, B/ g4 k8 X; @* `
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
7 K( @& v2 n& V3 M) c4 {5 s: tthe other possibility.
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6 b9 D0 i0 i& q) a' iAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English1 t; ?) {) H4 O8 J6 u1 z
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in: r9 D8 x" a% J6 f; O( J
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ {4 k5 M6 y3 c+ ?: K+ ]1 g
6 i! }1 x4 [% [/ }6 [In 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: B! D6 L( @ z
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.7 I* _: W! z! A3 @! j5 m
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, L9 i; h. R& P ^There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
5 o. B4 {( h" ?9 d' dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 ]+ i3 n6 u, h9 Q6 U# ifotograf 20% shorter., b+ Y4 A; y$ s" s5 S
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
2 D7 e2 Y' [. [9 {/ v5 I# u, {reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 v; P& }* [# s! h( g7 K2 M" o
9 d2 d- \$ t. `* ?, F4 iGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
/ d% V1 [2 c5 g5 O! @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! N+ r4 c3 N+ u) x6 h: i* D! r4 X
disgrasful and it should go away.+ Z% n* l3 `; h8 N/ K: n7 D* _
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with3 }- `# ]; `) i5 C9 a
"z" and "w" with "v".+ X3 u! r e3 S+ [
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ b" O/ ~5 i2 k+ w; d. _0 [% yafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
2 Q7 i+ b, l) Munderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
3 ]' R+ s, X; ~Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze5 D3 X+ X9 c; c0 q1 ]) }" r1 R) S2 e
forst plas.
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! a$ G% \4 ~/ i( J0 K' A# b0 oIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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