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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will. L$ v. w' o+ a- u3 l# i
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was& o8 X9 c: B5 z5 S- V5 ?6 D% V: i
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" E& a* T. N9 [ _5 GAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
8 |; h5 b f/ F/ J: _& Fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in+ o# H$ p& p! S! L" ?, B3 ]
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ P. I" s% M) i3 l
# J4 ^$ C% p' qIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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; Z$ t# K$ x# X) o$ fThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up- Q3 p" C# j. I$ z; j2 J
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., z) i9 G: R, Q6 t
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, s+ \ F- ]! j( }troublesome "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 F& l& q3 m. d6 G# z2 W4 a8 freach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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3 v; s6 m/ z& PGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always A( t4 n/ r! l
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
; H* ~% g, \# f* I. Adisgrasful and it should go away.0 k E9 G4 f2 O! u+ f4 ]+ F
) w% }0 N, G4 y* m; JBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with: d3 I7 ]/ n( p# P! 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& H$ L) n$ \$ E. i, `& s3 a$ A5 |7 F/ i+ P
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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, `: C; Y. B( s' }' S" _; m- ]* MZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu& l9 R2 ^$ J6 @
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.0 o8 M( }- |3 j! r
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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8 l0 j) p0 U: b, QIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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