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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
?4 M- j6 w7 ^+ Sbe 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; a: e4 L0 o( t: Y! _' Y# A9 J
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
9 i) M* d. p0 `! K splan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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' J- ^8 k- K- SIn 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 up7 m9 D3 Y! ~+ p6 v9 [
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. P) j+ h+ L/ }" s. v$ ?
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# w3 a7 E8 i( o" q
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
; j0 i* j1 H2 @6 u' sfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
$ @" r) U$ {# W b4 freach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always( t; k4 O1 ?" F# s# A
ben a deterent to akurate speling.* b1 Q E2 v- e# I5 k
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
( T/ p# _7 Q8 T1 t6 z; ?+ \- [disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 Y6 i3 ~9 u+ \
"z" and "w" with "v"./ Y; N# X( [0 s# K2 V9 T( J/ w
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
9 @; E5 i; X& e" u, g- r; {after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.' v9 b8 L, e* Y ~: h
8 ^/ R. w! z: J( X; W* pZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
/ P8 G) X% a0 h& t* p, \6 Aunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.* K+ N% Q; G! G; Z" q1 U
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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4 h9 G9 Q/ q9 [# x3 \If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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