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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, c- `8 s* j, C$ K: \. k: ~& jbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was( o7 E7 A6 y& v
the other possibility.+ c$ x0 o' y. P3 p. O" O" n
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English A9 Q. k4 F! t! y$ F( y, e8 \7 D) W$ O
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 a! M. N6 h5 P) ~- n
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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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
8 V, v* K" h& S/ e: bkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ e# ~' h# Z' K/ b. f% D
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; u1 K# g( ^2 ?* C1 IThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 p( @, B7 }4 x- }- g8 k
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like5 Y3 {% R! r" c4 P
fotograf 20% shorter.
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, _* \+ `. T0 A. \! N+ m! w2 N7 BIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to0 j, g) R0 ?5 L4 U. E
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.% L- S8 ^3 j5 S5 L7 @* ^* Z( \! b
' v9 c8 N3 t2 o: k# V7 u3 B' lGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
, d& u$ c* W" `+ i, @ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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/ r9 h- I6 A9 y' }1 W0 x8 sAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
" k: {* L8 b6 B, sdisgrasful 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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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) w0 K! x( Z5 A) yafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.. A- Y: q2 I H! B2 a' U5 F
4 G. L/ u7 t6 G; t8 X6 H* KZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. X6 v1 s; h9 y/ j' l' Funderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru., i& l1 Y, e" \5 M. i
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze |% o6 x, f0 N6 Q, V, {
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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