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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
' F6 W2 P6 a8 O2 F6 obe 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
' [2 W; b% w" }1 }, Tspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
5 T; P7 {5 Q8 G U( {7 ~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, b; f1 B) }8 @ x/ E, j0 Y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the5 ]2 P: | a2 q9 E5 H
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like0 g" J% Z) y6 @# R7 ?
fotograf 20% shorter.+ v; Z U+ O: o
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to7 Q0 r; g( n2 A! M
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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: r( U6 x2 y; t7 r) AGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always$ C( L# A- O7 \+ K8 {3 l# J2 [$ g
ben a deterent to akurate speling.) f. |% ^, ?# q- J8 _! O1 F) F; b
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is$ X; w8 O) ]4 l& F
disgrasful and it should go away.
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' ^* ~) d( e( xBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with" I; M4 L8 h' l% W; H0 {4 `& X
"z" and "w" with "v".
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1 ^! Y8 Z5 ?+ [+ c% l$ C; V2 RDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 o7 x" J( t% e& C: G$ \; @after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., F, L( h! ]3 J" I# C8 m$ J; `1 M
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu' k6 G# h% P3 G3 f# N: _% {
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
! U9 J, ]3 u1 X0 C' f- d; eUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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