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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
: X. u' e c% Y* Cbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was2 I& P/ k1 ^* [! d2 g4 G8 C
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English* P) j- j2 S% h& _+ f! K" R
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in) z" x& p. y/ i# G6 Z3 B
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".$ ?1 L, P3 L3 v* j
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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( I' U( Z3 G3 E
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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; W+ K8 m/ s! a; FThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, B. D) B$ [4 M/ E2 n( Ctroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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1 g5 g: z: j! k- }& ?; V( Q# x \In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
: @5 s- g$ ]- h! i; L# freach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
$ b1 o* K; A0 Iben a deterent to akurate speling.
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0 r/ U5 u2 |9 ~! h3 g2 b$ Z g- u: WAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is' C" o" r$ c/ M1 i( L: M
disgrasful and it should go away.
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6 C! A+ w7 r7 X1 }0 _# p/ ABy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
$ W+ m7 U# {/ e/ e( t0 w8 {"z" and "w" with "v".7 i" ^2 ]# I9 Q7 o& c
+ U d5 s$ N$ t. D9 I7 T) {, P, aDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
2 Y, a5 ^0 M% E6 i0 e1 t& h/ u$ lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.8 L& q$ |! X- J3 V3 M
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
* i/ O% P# s/ Y+ F8 |+ L @) \understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
' N6 c( d6 ~. bUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze3 W/ U) S* b4 ?
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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