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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
; ^9 c- }. Y! F$ ?5 u0 Dbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
5 I& n- K# i0 Wthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
/ `7 w, O; o& S- w: {6 `) Cspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in( x% n7 I! j0 ^5 C' j! o" j
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".2 ~( M2 S# `6 N% F# S
q( B$ t3 E8 J: `6 r4 E) A' yIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
. \3 }- p- y( V2 p" Bthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ l9 N1 u0 l# X# J9 z7 o
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the9 O6 j7 m" J l! I' O. z' T
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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7 z% y3 V" |. Z' E0 a) A: pIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ D4 ]# N3 z& Y; E/ T7 u; [( C) Dreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.% f6 q- Y. R x' [, G' C
$ Y% u: h( K: Z7 v; UGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always; R% m9 Q" d) v( @3 V
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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" F# r! @) ?: C) r/ q! [/ LAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' d1 o, s1 v2 T4 G$ k3 edisgrasful and it should go away.
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9 r2 \) h" T9 s( i1 v) iBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with* ?8 x1 V7 h1 m% d2 h7 A2 Z
"z" and "w" with "v".- U6 K% T# e/ a% F. w6 E
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* Z- n+ S j+ Q3 S4 `after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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6 T; m: o" H; |- QZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" k( W/ ^1 `/ H, e" }understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru./ P0 @# d k2 q7 e. m/ \
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze% Z6 I. ~. T. P P, l2 P9 e
forst plas.
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! k9 y. _ P5 }, e2 ?5 \+ E6 \0 b. F2 FIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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