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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
7 w; f# l6 H2 T5 U% qbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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0 y5 x0 S' n( L% I. f4 s' PAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English/ U3 F [" p% E6 U7 t2 b
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in. M7 E: p6 |2 h4 s3 i0 b' ?0 _0 u- j' `
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 up8 G9 _6 M9 b; f; X2 N7 r' `/ \
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ C4 w1 O+ D1 R I, K
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the' Y1 g6 R: @ G4 j7 h4 l
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to! N) L; F! x( z1 k0 o
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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7 j! W, M: k$ hGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
* D6 z- H8 C& Qben 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
* w! Y, k$ c5 F, y$ K. \disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with8 O$ i. S, u, C, M' `, c
"z" and "w" with "v".8 b" G1 _6 [* z0 Z
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and& D0 Q, }6 C2 v1 ~
after 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+ [! S+ U9 U v) }% g& X0 ]( y
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.9 u; U- c+ r9 h- }9 m6 B
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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. Y5 h. ~& b4 E8 q, B" g% xIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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