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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
8 k4 E l q/ O! p; R- R+ E$ Hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" Q: u$ T% i* @+ M0 _
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
$ v% N, V6 M" C7 A% e/ H# bspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ B2 H' u5 ^ [4 R
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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" W# G9 u6 H2 d" dIn 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
3 Y/ |8 W. s' w1 E: T: O! rkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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/ f1 r7 L! V8 s' bThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the) o x: f# l2 B! E; ?
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
! ?, t4 B1 ?% N* Z( J" ~" k$ Mfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) p0 O2 y" [7 I4 \: m
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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( U( t& e! q+ Q6 g$ NGovernments 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, E; @8 t" g+ O: |
disgrasful and it should go away.4 K# x) n3 ]$ t$ s' d* S
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! ^" A& E% v$ o5 `3 H, v0 r6 r
"z" and "w" with "v".; Y. b! T- [ w
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and6 x6 F# h$ ^( X; f9 B
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.# E7 s H) d! Q% T! O
" l* t2 U- I4 N0 \4 k1 uZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu5 h0 L6 c9 w5 R
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
% B) r N. Y$ p0 H2 C. X, p5 QUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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2 f; }: M- |' b$ Y' XIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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