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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! N7 Z& h! N% p* J* b
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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2 G2 D3 o' S [As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English2 F4 J( ]1 `7 f" m& h
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in# X+ B. Q9 l4 O& {4 i
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".+ U( [, p- ]( ?* T0 x1 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+ R# v& h3 N+ a* r
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.$ J' M" K k! d
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the( A; L" c+ f$ b/ l5 h
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like0 ^$ v0 Q U$ X! z9 H
fotograf 20% shorter.. S7 `, ~* r+ u6 M
7 }# {* m& Z, H+ nIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to( J) g) A9 d$ b1 [& ]
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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7 B% G4 y4 T9 V/ R& M( CGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 e; n! J* ]3 G5 m
ben a deterent to akurate speling.' t& N+ e8 }+ m, q; C
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is- l2 F5 O4 B0 b& I4 A
disgrasful and it should go away.
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5 n# U/ M$ B; N! nBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with3 s$ {, t' W/ y- m' h, [4 \
"z" and "w" with "v".+ `1 W. k( \2 h& X) I! H" `4 V
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
: z+ g7 J, g) c$ ?* R7 i. O) qafter 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* n% y- @" v$ U" A$ \* S; R
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. s T$ V) {4 ?4 g
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze( r, Y* L6 C! N1 }; t
forst plas.
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- s4 [/ Y, `/ X; M7 E$ LIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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