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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
* y& m. T( o4 |! s- x5 `be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was1 ~) O- e7 A2 Q w$ o4 W
the other possibility.5 S: Y& P/ y/ i9 a
V0 O( e, M9 F2 jAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 Z+ v3 r7 S( g" {7 M2 n
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in; ?0 E' o8 X. @9 ?0 [( d5 Z8 I5 Z
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
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
2 I% V4 t4 W7 G" h( ctroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 B( g. |) N" `) `8 h0 h
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to4 K- x9 y7 ?& @( f7 y. k2 p- K
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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1 p1 z6 [- ?' y/ j/ V+ [$ [Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 Y* g# |% ]$ o0 P# n3 @. g
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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; ~! a6 c, F( J! y1 |! a# l$ q8 ?Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is7 r/ W. L. c' R+ b+ }; [
disgrasful and it should go away.9 w1 o: i$ F8 t( H
2 U' S2 D) `- V/ i' rBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 I7 I" ~* @3 O" M$ c
"z" and "w" with "v".& ~' s2 F8 L5 v1 F; r5 b8 l5 u4 ~
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, ~6 u9 z0 r/ b# }$ s# o& uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.8 m. S9 F; S! c, ~" J1 I2 A
H1 d1 C" o1 I c" Q, U/ yZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu' j- ]# o; D% `6 m5 p0 X
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. Z K3 o# Z9 m8 x1 x7 t4 O
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze# w8 j. @* V' Y/ R' t( A$ a
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k& U, \- N$ e b1 E2 BIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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