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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will6 |# Q8 R1 c9 d: [
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was- }6 ?# b. @# g+ W$ N2 T
the other possibility.
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0 l( q& f5 j4 h+ l& mAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
c, a1 o7 F6 @1 \ H9 w+ \. C( N2 xspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in; U8 P( Q. B2 {2 i$ D0 ^. E
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- \) A) h; A' L9 T
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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% H8 f1 v7 m, f: s1 h/ J4 x, ZThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up* q& d' \- [3 I# U
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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2 b5 X D' s0 b' t, A" ?/ DThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
$ ~8 B- G, E [: y! I) ltroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
+ U) R, l4 N6 t4 @* `* Dfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to8 B! ^7 l: {- x j* w* O
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* V) \# u; I( a" ~ _
. Q/ H9 M t: t: G% [3 EGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always; x, H7 M8 s4 f4 b* e- S C5 Q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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) r0 b2 }. ]0 wAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
! A; P$ j' u4 K( R% W/ Vdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% A9 b8 I5 ~1 b
"z" and "w" with "v".( ?( k( r% K6 \* z
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and& |( p8 h+ Z/ A+ f# x g
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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9 L: @ I1 ^6 I8 W4 u z9 Z; G" q2 TZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu6 G$ w T, ]7 ]/ O3 e5 A' [8 b
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
6 \' w3 [) p% W1 y! [Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze/ F4 W8 u& h. U4 _( V
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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