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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
( c9 e% l0 m: ]. m8 L! Ube the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was2 Y' n, |- r8 g$ Y" M1 h5 P3 W+ @3 {& X. k
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English! [- Z$ m3 ?# N2 S
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
: U2 d1 N8 n% Q3 b( Hplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".1 ]5 g7 H4 z' E+ B! q! O2 d' J- l
* W: j4 O; [( F& iIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
3 C; w# ^/ a# L3 \% }+ M$ b! u1 y. _the sivil servants jump with joy.8 [# G9 P5 J7 L1 _- d6 C- Y" M" I
7 y6 z: \& G: S) y) t; W! z) ZThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up& o! f+ c& h9 h+ G" A/ J3 m) }2 }
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the! O7 @8 l% X( ~& ~
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
8 ]% {: @7 f2 N3 p5 I9 Treach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is; i3 L! q5 f8 w7 Q# C
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, X$ ~3 ~, P6 L4 S& f# T
"z" and "w" with "v"./ g" r6 q1 ?( `3 C! l
" @3 t! U$ \. z! M( |During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ h3 y i. Y# ~- n: Hafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; P& t% H5 m, H) {: G
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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6 J/ }+ |. ?! S2 w+ p1 b$ O( TIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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