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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will+ B9 ^4 G. q% e# y8 G; V% V
be 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
3 f2 X U5 C$ E O3 Zspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
% |+ s2 }2 N% o; {" [( k* zplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish". Q- t1 ] L) f1 |$ n% _2 n$ e
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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0 D6 j& O2 e! g9 A; H. lThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up( A6 p% z4 U$ {; l5 Y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the- d0 {: a, L3 T5 y7 U
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like1 h7 J2 ~$ Q4 V. L, p& S* B
fotograf 20% shorter.# a( F) D: g- R" }/ V% J
# [4 Q' }8 g+ y1 NIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 @& p3 E. ^2 Oreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.. G* x6 r$ [: e# a
, G1 l/ p3 H/ ^Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always$ v' e V9 n. @9 [
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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7 G7 \# s2 \$ |. k' @1 R6 K" ]9 N% NAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is& Y$ Z( O3 D1 ?6 h
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* u' N, W: Z9 W$ |3 eafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.2 q8 {! O8 w2 B9 Q! x
4 l F) {! Q6 B. k5 X+ t( RZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& d: Z9 Y' r: }1 }understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.6 d0 X$ T; n, E: Q" x# F
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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