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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will& a% F4 N/ N; z( Z
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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1 t7 J+ C. q) f) u% m& ]As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
# h1 P" m6 k7 P) p( vspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in( ^; _) ?% J/ h
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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/ ^$ E9 H) x) p+ N7 aIn 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
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 G+ A# L! W4 }* ?* m
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to6 i, V/ b1 c% l! ?
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 [5 R3 a# n' pben a deterent to akurate speling.7 L. w/ z9 ]0 Z. }& ~+ D/ |: i; K! o
4 ]7 h2 G m) S% J' hAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is5 [# X; g \; Q+ I2 D6 o% c# o; [
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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, U$ G5 h: |& O/ oDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: L' L5 P2 q0 l7 s q% I, A
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl./ r7 x+ h/ f7 Q- Y% Z! K) I5 A0 W
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu/ v- h5 d, _) M8 Z; z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.& u2 t/ N3 s5 K1 C; o5 K! _2 D# v
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 z; a5 H2 W( [. o0 E0 X h
forst plas.
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; o& N" S# C" o7 mIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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