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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
9 o+ y) G- c }2 j" V' ~" j% Ybe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 u6 t# Z$ ]* a, @5 O9 j
the other possibility.3 l6 i" |% Y6 i/ h7 D
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
6 ]2 z" F7 b, Tspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
: e5 i- @0 [; P) Cplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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* E; C1 E5 c4 W7 eIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make( N! Q3 z( t: { E5 C/ A4 S
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up4 A) N9 A" `. H/ Z1 o8 M$ F
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* J$ W0 z6 i' _ g- ?+ v$ L
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
6 x3 l1 |6 f: Ytroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
7 K3 ^% |; Q5 h9 A. ^fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
6 N4 R# \' j3 d! O$ greach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- U2 o* a$ |- P
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. H3 `. U. ]9 A; M+ u5 i z( R. _
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with1 ^/ {: y0 T. ?+ P" q' @% o
"z" and "w" with "v".
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" I& T0 @& f- j. c- L( |7 SDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and# Y( s# I7 u1 j
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.$ `- q# v+ F) z
$ H. p8 M; E( s/ R3 [Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
; J! m7 y N* r6 Runderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.! @: k \% C" f. U6 B
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze& q5 E+ o( H4 e; O' v% m
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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