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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! O5 y+ ~$ C# H- d
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was- `# x2 |1 N% f* T! P0 f' o/ \( a
the other possibility.
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" E: }. @# M; O- N. sAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English/ |2 P5 T7 f, k) d& d
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
( I% X N& q# G, q8 m; eplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".( r! o% q6 A7 D5 s
& Y# K) C, k6 W) r7 `4 g2 UIn 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
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the5 I" W" z: o' x/ I) G$ R
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+ ~1 @$ X5 M9 N( [4 m
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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, I& X) ]9 ~9 H, P0 z+ iGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% ~" L3 b, G9 x1 Y1 \3 g* b* W
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is4 G1 Q) Z- E; c* g2 C4 D! x5 N
disgrasful and it should go away.3 [2 K- t, E) ~- A: A. t6 p, \2 {
$ k% i8 p6 q- A5 U. g, R/ v. u' JBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with [' p4 o" ]; i, Q& C
"z" and "w" with "v".
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1 L' Q, H9 Q. gDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and6 Z2 v! ?' U, m& M9 F s, w. y
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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1 x5 B( w# w" i$ C) ]4 q XZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu" x$ v* e. m6 S' t! P
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.* u0 o: b( i4 b/ B: [) x u' ]
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze% {2 ]& V& e7 a6 S/ f; a
forst plas.
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7 ]) b- i, F7 y X( J1 J- gIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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