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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
1 ]$ h% u7 u& H+ q6 p4 r' Rbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was+ b- [ Q2 c" T0 d+ ?
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
$ ?& V6 W' R5 H7 F* V- Pspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* ]: `6 I5 n1 }" k( ?) E$ v8 _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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3 y7 {. E' j/ S4 dThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
0 s- c( ?9 j" M# ?; q+ Ukonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.$ n" L" c- X) u# L( x2 w# S
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& g2 r3 L) g g0 u. Y- x8 `* N
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
8 R* ?$ s3 x8 S. G3 C* \fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to; M) f; Q5 E3 I6 o7 ^
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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( x, d7 ?' X+ |2 g- C4 FGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
* C% M0 c1 V: J. J2 [ben a deterent to akurate speling.! Y$ W5 w8 t' x
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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6 R( Z: }# { {9 R4 w5 F& ]. G5 }By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with2 q2 C- K8 T m" o2 ^) z
"z" and "w" with "v".2 Z: i8 P7 E+ o* j
& g1 B5 D& E/ m+ EDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
|. l5 t3 j' n9 K3 a- b5 q% h% Q5 fafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu3 i# K: t8 o! }
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru., ^ Z4 z9 W# j4 n
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze% D" x9 `+ p2 j, D/ ]( X: p. i! P
forst plas.
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; O) U1 s, r, ~8 _" l# O* yIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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