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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, _! X7 O- h+ Q4 M9 wbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
1 V# ]# u* l' g* t* u$ xthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 V" | l8 o9 d8 E" U9 p# c
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in+ l1 W- ]! f2 p# V& m1 b% R
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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' H8 M3 w5 }9 EIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make5 p* r6 _' S' a8 n0 I' E. D1 t
the sivil servants jump with joy.! W J. x, @9 G& @, r' [4 f ~
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
+ `0 K# U: @2 `0 W" i; Fkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
( a0 O" S% G( r5 k. O! X- Otroublesome "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" V% }. V9 E* g$ D Y7 b
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.$ J" ^0 S2 X, R7 N- m9 H
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 [$ A& k3 q2 O4 y0 M" @" K2 M* ]ben a deterent to akurate speling.3 v# e! O- U$ V& L- t$ ]- Q
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
) K7 q2 R+ |: E0 R0 _# P# ? _' qdisgrasful and it should go away.
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3 c" K5 C1 U4 c5 J# U& j" NBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ l- t7 P3 L9 t+ x
"z" and "w" with "v".( i7 N- S; j. h3 g
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
" b7 ^ T; K7 r2 Fafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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! l, X. v9 v" Z+ rZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" r: A2 T% Z" S% U; t. yunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% c9 s! f; g% P+ M! F: N2 q c$ e
Und 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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