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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will1 ~7 T: y5 Q% B+ j$ T
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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: q, X) h7 _' Y3 s7 n7 |! X/ T9 ~2 wAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. ~1 S3 P: q$ j& {
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 D' j ]+ Z# K" [+ C
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".$ J1 S; u8 p! v9 K
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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* t# ? i7 P. mThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up- t8 I$ i) U( e( ?# \6 Z1 m( \: Z7 C
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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* M x) l. {; TThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the2 J0 _8 ^ P) X& s% x
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like" w& z: W1 ^! I+ ?4 w( h0 K, @. q& B: x
fotograf 20% shorter.# b/ H" T5 h. y8 e
/ F; A( i0 J& g* |5 y7 {4 c5 @% _, gIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. f1 u a+ f! @5 N4 x
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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$ Q- R3 a0 h; c. U1 DGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
. G3 m5 G5 q4 [4 oben a deterent to akurate speling.' y$ ]6 b# C, Y9 S a
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is1 t2 a! C# F/ b+ f& F z
disgrasful and it should go away.
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* r- g5 M/ O; J" hBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with- c; c" \2 [7 s9 g9 p
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, |$ h' P) E0 qafter 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 tu9 c! H) \$ K4 K. D$ c, V+ p
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
6 z* C* Q5 V7 XUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
2 y" O! X# {# l# u% E4 E. S" yforst plas.
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3 D9 ^/ q8 E, y4 c- z0 C* v7 wIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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