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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
6 _1 \6 ^. N1 n! B3 R# lbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" V4 ^& I2 n9 N% C! E5 g4 C
the other possibility.
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0 i$ o, V& G5 \, R/ EAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
" N/ G i. R7 L. h+ @* l! u4 e7 X, Kspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
% z! `. _9 ^( \9 R5 ]- Aplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".8 f& L. t9 o' _' c+ _
: Y8 Q+ `0 R0 m% kIn 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& U/ D0 s) q% `; B$ ^$ v' | n
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
" }2 z2 _# [3 f+ @troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
# t& C2 u7 B1 g$ n) |fotograf 20% shorter.& b9 X, J' W; G
4 O( F, T. ?( _* R) fIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to1 l |6 k$ e r7 {4 S0 p; C
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always( y" @; E# k. d* [7 [2 _' t
ben a deterent to akurate speling., S( \+ ~' q# {5 u- i
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 s% \2 m: Y3 ^3 B; e
disgrasful and it should go away.
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* Z. F# _5 ]" C) {# @4 G8 ^% gBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with3 }! c7 N1 a! o- |% o
"z" and "w" with "v".4 a" u m% X/ X" @9 v, o
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and# D2 m( m* q) z0 A; A6 W
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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! c* ^/ l) d1 bZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. E& F7 `% z; b7 J& Qunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru." D' S* ]3 `3 P5 u7 R. K: ^
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze! _7 O8 K) f2 q1 H% l3 _! W
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# B x7 ]- R' a; j9 i1 EIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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