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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will* R3 }- {3 G7 ], d6 R E# j# Z
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
7 ^( }2 i& [. T' X% |1 F+ Vspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
2 R L9 t* T( C: T0 fplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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_3 |/ s1 J: p; m1 D4 m" YIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
8 E! ^0 ]! g( W* n! ]& }, tthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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4 t1 u. O5 a$ i- z; M. lThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
/ K' I0 V; S$ G- I0 Ikonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
3 t2 G0 Q0 q9 f4 Z/ _5 L4 Ktroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
4 B/ g }% `+ o, [7 l5 `fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to& ^# c4 h; S8 h
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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2 D7 S9 c: O$ U9 q, t6 ~* {Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" x8 p) i2 i" X, G# L
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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# i' F7 k4 I' E& V* u# m. hAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
- O9 L9 t0 K B2 O2 J5 u: Z! qdisgrasful and it should go away.; S' T! ~; D6 f+ z& \" l5 K
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ n- @/ |; ?( [4 c
"z" and "w" with "v".
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& v1 E) ?- s4 n2 ?, BDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and. o* m9 V4 \0 i: S0 {
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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( E3 X) ~- s; WZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu- x, N2 d& z" l' A* N. `7 g. I: R- F
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.) |, v# t( w, v- T' W) c8 R
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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/ g. G9 F% o$ rIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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