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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
- H+ _3 i7 _2 Y* l: qbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English& c; z/ ~: X# h' Z5 f: S
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
( x! o0 Z, _) i1 E w4 Y- `! W! ?. aplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".7 Q3 A1 `: Z, x% x* M, u4 z) p# ^
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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/ _: S- H9 U- d" r9 g4 JThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up* c$ d* m9 _- H
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 N+ R& e3 j' X2 i
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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1 T% P0 N2 |* aIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# D |3 G* a8 c# D
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.( {, A- N, I5 j
2 T# \9 y- Z u: g: uGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* c8 S5 K) ?( k \# q9 `& t0 K
ben a deterent to akurate speling.3 ~' j$ r' L3 b2 h
: {: |; x5 o( o. g. TAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
! w& C$ w1 m& h4 @, I0 bdisgrasful and it should go away.
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7 W. c+ e, a% p) M2 XBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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) I1 A! j. M" h! MDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and+ X b; N! \' b* m" b
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* _( o# U6 Y* \
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.* Q. |' O6 [2 q
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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7 [ F9 e/ _; S4 }% O! UIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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