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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ a6 h( ~& O0 y3 a
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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J: L. X! k! `As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 v; t P1 K0 Q' ~* ^, V% L" j, y1 espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% X4 Z6 z" g5 l5 B; c
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish". m D$ t- T, m$ Y) {) w, u' | n7 {
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
3 q/ Z* k* }) g5 g6 B' Othe sivil servants jump with joy.6 p- `- K( y9 P! \
1 k8 C2 `& _ hThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up- B0 x. f. H0 R3 H/ v
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.' }; U/ p" j; {0 i' Y S# O5 k/ L5 |
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- ~9 e" j, j* z. VThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the0 q/ T# M6 i0 i9 K
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 to2 T& h. W+ g8 E. q: K
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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2 ]7 y7 b1 i( G1 G2 P) ? `Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
$ b( Q2 u5 r' A4 {$ Gben a deterent to akurate speling.
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; {4 J# h0 Y1 Z) m% p: g+ Q; aAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
# r. a5 {9 P4 J4 rdisgrasful and it should go away.* |# f5 L8 S; ~ d0 t
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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* H- |7 C2 U& ?6 e" R mDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
( L, v, d' _4 B: z0 X+ Y; hafter 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 tu9 P/ x2 R, Q5 ]) T* a
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
9 w9 q- e- A; }: _! dUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze1 [0 J# m, e/ w
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: c5 B/ v2 n) F" e- ^2 ` NIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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