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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will5 p+ z, \" T& }7 V, K# p
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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5 V/ G! A, |& d Z4 l ^As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% r& `2 f) z4 W6 m; ~! [4 ?
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
" K0 A: A" ~ P' N- rplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".& E9 C2 I4 ]7 r& T6 f, o; i
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
$ H: V# n0 A0 X5 }the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up9 k7 Y; ?' m/ {6 V
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the9 h6 d/ T8 Z& v4 u) v# r; y
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/ @: j$ P* {$ S2 l8 ~1 v
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 K5 {: o$ V, P3 ^
# z" k& Y {0 V. ]- h# @) gGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
1 N" V7 L8 x, F6 zben a deterent to akurate speling.
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$ E% a: x. K3 `) b. n7 D2 qAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is8 U& Q0 Z6 ~/ w$ P4 ]
disgrasful and it should go away.
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; Z/ Q$ B3 C8 Q5 a' R. s" qBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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: B# j; c9 h4 m- `! E2 e: FDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, t: D. `* A4 e+ d( c. rafter 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 tu
2 P0 Y# A# J8 d% ^8 v4 L1 o! _understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
2 P* o1 A0 z: J1 GUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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