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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
4 X9 K; G0 S" U3 D! @/ ^be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was/ W2 E* c, u) v7 M
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. a: C2 i) _7 Z% y5 p. v/ N, F0 h
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& m) v1 C) g) h$ Tplan 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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/ d* \9 @1 J6 dThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
, _- u6 e6 C' fkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. o/ {5 g4 m, d3 C! M# m% ]) N, b
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& J" f2 E' `4 H: }There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the! W [2 O+ Q0 ]' t
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like$ p4 a- [- a7 u' d
fotograf 20% shorter.. s% u# M. h/ [2 P2 D0 q
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
4 z& m' E' m! Zreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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5 r4 D: J* ?3 O- G* UGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
( W& e7 K6 ]1 \% K# c& J7 J( u; Cben 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 j9 W% K d& n: n' j5 ^
disgrasful and it should go away. i: F7 `: G! P/ ^: O
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with8 |8 q' W. M$ m+ V
"z" and "w" with "v".5 e' `( r2 j) `" n& e
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
: x1 G% o w" Y- Lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.' A$ a# f5 u6 \. l/ v
. E1 n% |+ \1 @5 lZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu4 N) f( T' C2 w! m' N4 H' l( Y
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
1 F7 A) a h# Q8 lUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze8 L5 s: v |& @: a- v; R, U0 U
forst plas.
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) O" P4 x3 z9 l( M* t9 e* w+ iIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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