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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will& V ^6 k, B; i! O# A* b
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was) d6 s, K% \5 _# u6 X) C
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 y2 S2 b& ]7 M+ w( Q* \% N
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
4 S9 i& m1 O+ K# [+ hplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".. b5 r) I7 J8 |8 M, Z8 @: p8 g
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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
! J+ L6 w8 h. ]* }2 t3 E( @konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.# y! Z( k# l+ n2 L+ q! t& |" x
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. ?' q6 Q! X$ FThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the) c- I8 x* [1 d
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
6 R: y* F4 r3 Ffotograf 20% shorter.
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; a$ W' u- }- e; LIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
% J& e4 `% z- q: F+ T$ _4 k/ ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- a: u; v2 @% e O
: i$ j" F: v3 ~Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; \$ t1 F7 T3 h) e2 dben 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$ a; L2 X9 @& C- |
disgrasful and it should go away.
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8 z6 j3 U2 J# O3 k2 FBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( \: d) i# g% S
"z" and "w" with "v".
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3 T5 \. j1 ]3 d3 D- R) ^- LDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and6 I; u" V+ p5 @1 A: ]' h
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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Und 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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