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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
7 C& B& v, K7 ybe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English# q# c" E3 K+ l# c5 [( ~
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ n+ q+ A6 H) V6 O: s- Y# z
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 m6 l! d9 M2 k& N$ T# Y
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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, q/ r% \: Z% O1 @6 @
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* i, M E8 G, M" _2 g2 _5 k
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: ?% H+ a1 w, w& }. m% ^' I7 ?( h
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 to
6 U5 T' k4 J, vreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.1 S8 K9 g! ^1 n5 t8 F% C8 B" N8 G
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
% a) v- `; ?# y. n! ~7 u& tben a deterent to akurate speling.: _! t: @" M% Z" g
. q M, l- A0 J5 P9 uAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is5 Z: L& k- @( g& H; {! C
disgrasful and it should go away.
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+ E; [+ w$ E/ e N: q0 qBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% x* ^2 V1 `- K3 P; x
"z" and "w" with "v".
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$ N& K8 R x8 G5 P" ^During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 {! R {1 ?4 x! F8 |. z/ i2 D1 T# c$ @after 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
( o, }4 D, v8 \: W1 v! F% b& cunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
9 Q# ^4 q) l; C/ l) H1 E. l3 U9 s9 kUnd 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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