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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' H, U% o+ h$ C! `$ P
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was+ K1 D6 | W: Y& t
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! [# a" i% \6 }As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
6 l) X- T8 w' e' tspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- j. ?& y1 e( B) u
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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( E$ U, n! N) O7 n% \& ]: ]$ AThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up, ~9 n* s/ Y! B5 t5 |) Z
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.4 ^) }3 J# @7 \* I+ Y& C- Z
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, s! o7 K: z! e9 `troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
/ x6 g' w2 h" a8 A1 d7 H3 @fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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( I( S& @+ b/ R- e# r; gGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% `7 J6 v. k( K! h0 w6 H9 ?3 U
ben a deterent to akurate speling.+ V/ m+ H7 H* D3 {
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is1 h; m3 O5 I9 H: |+ X7 U2 G. s, k2 y
disgrasful and it should go away.
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4 T3 X1 B, b' E9 ^6 ^. K" RBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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5 `$ d' u Z4 S8 i$ V; s2 ?During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 t0 P3 l; B( C( D; Bafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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# q* ~3 ?! T6 Y" }$ y/ e2 l6 X: uZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu( ~6 R4 U% ^ O5 @' a. m9 |
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
R; i$ z. s8 s# O& y( F2 C. U4 vUnd 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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