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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will( }. J; j9 C8 I: h% i
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English+ k. Q& a7 A7 n# }. o
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% N6 K' a0 O+ v2 A. O) h5 c( G
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 ~2 v5 D7 q$ t# T
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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6 |$ u. u6 S3 P: o1 A. ?4 D# u7 XThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 O' U: `+ ?; c9 T; m* F' k. y# htroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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) ~& F8 n( U; IIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
6 P4 Q" f2 w% |- t" Kreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.+ Y: z3 d7 T& [; D E4 w9 o
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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; F' T/ n! Q8 R( X9 |. U1 tAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is; k9 x: P8 Z/ c, [' n' N6 E
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and7 y( `) w* L+ G+ |2 u
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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5 m$ G8 ?$ z$ G5 hZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu; O$ E$ _) f8 {* W* R" R0 _$ \
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
. y- y' A# m9 T/ i5 ^Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze8 X9 d6 \: @* z- v4 |! f
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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