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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will, F9 G- G A' W. W
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was% k2 b6 {; t8 B1 L3 y. V6 o
the other possibility.
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" t4 y# D- ]7 TAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
; h U! c/ s. z* bspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in. A0 p+ t5 ?! v; ]! P
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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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ s' L( |' _8 k |# I; `! Hkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ D0 M: \0 u! N0 E. Y2 a) h! }& d$ a
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0 N0 w/ }0 m+ B, jThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: U2 ?, g% G( P) X) f
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like+ i+ W+ a! j2 p% R- I7 ]1 z
fotograf 20% shorter.0 w0 h$ k* J. V% F) h; h
, |5 B! m3 _# n" [2 dIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to; @. ^1 w# n0 Z0 z: i
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always( X0 s7 q& a8 U0 V
ben a deterent to akurate speling.+ P! ?$ S$ s# m
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
/ i" Q+ i- n, K( [' qdisgrasful and it should go away.
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7 T& E9 V- d7 aBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
, z" N# h2 Z! ?8 @"z" and "w" with "v".
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" H8 C3 X5 Z4 p8 ~During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
/ y2 I- C/ @' G- U6 Jafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.$ N1 z6 c7 c8 ]; p( L- I
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu& r% _; f% n3 M- F
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.5 T; ?; |& |- @
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze' g( B5 n$ y9 C
forst plas.
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* G) _$ `- L7 d9 f6 \* j% BIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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