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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will" @. J! z+ x7 }6 ~9 ~& I, X% K
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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+ H0 i' s5 F! h; R; t$ yAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English9 R; p( \1 @( I, A3 r# i
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
. X, L4 H3 H: V% b' H8 d2 O7 e! I- Bplan 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# I; K/ _- ?3 P( n6 H
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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2 T7 _8 _7 Z7 S h) fThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the+ R2 \) N2 } P- ?7 s( g# m
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like) s, x) P9 r) a X( ^; e+ R" S0 z/ ~7 F
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# Q. ]/ Z. c$ j0 F$ f, [
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: T3 Q; I7 W. Q# @2 E
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always4 |" r7 i" }8 w' k/ i
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is) ]1 |; b7 Z( z
disgrasful and it should go away.- {. e1 \9 w- I* B% m5 I
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 H) g+ o: Y- ^" |0 h
"z" and "w" with "v"., \; F7 R: _8 [$ [5 |4 }; C
! L8 i6 N4 P- y8 N2 n$ iDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
2 y$ S l/ ?* N' ~6 H; ?5 r$ n, ^after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.* M8 t: U( M+ x: y: B
; I6 s# y% |) o" s, M, p" \: gZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu$ M( E# w$ u; V" N
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
% J, `+ r( ~/ T5 R3 Z/ OUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 h' x2 B, S2 @* x% `7 Y0 s' A" \
forst plas.
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. b, [( O0 j8 F' U7 TIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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