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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! J9 D5 ^- c. q. F5 h8 c
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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! u. ]$ E2 h9 e4 J. W c) [* SAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English1 M- _6 n( C9 T' C5 S
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
5 x! A' \8 K! c. o% L. dplan 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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- v6 p, ^: |# W4 K! X: O5 FThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
4 L/ D# p: b O* O7 pkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the* U7 Y0 s& S) w5 w, G1 h- v
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like' G2 `" `+ A0 j' X7 w: g, t1 A
fotograf 20% shorter.
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3 _8 v1 x. f7 r x' s3 pIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' S H+ Y+ p. ^7 [' Dreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.! H- @2 M! u! D5 G6 x3 X
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 F, i& Z5 P2 U
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& e0 A$ w( F# @) v" n8 k/ V/ t9 f
disgrasful and it should go away.5 _8 u" l3 t; `: C. @; x
2 z u s7 @9 MBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with. H! P' r$ Y+ e p" b" S/ E/ I& f
"z" and "w" with "v".7 g9 W4 w! M: v6 P1 l/ K9 w, O- k
% X U" X; O% D! t' v% B# P' CDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
7 ^2 ], `! V/ i6 G' o; g( m) }6 Xafter 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! S0 y! F5 W! n$ ?: N
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru., v7 L3 s0 q; ?2 @3 |1 M
Und 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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