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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
E+ _* C7 Y6 C% y: _ S3 A Ebe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# W L6 Z9 ~: u! Z; G6 U, z1 C/ T
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
* c( n8 M5 f) o2 N ~spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" V+ k% M5 j6 i; ~
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 k- y5 k& K% x7 d2 Y
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ P! t5 W# L8 Tkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: y* X+ x$ i; P b! [
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1 E0 ~" ]/ M1 l; f: s; G% F# d; P8 cThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the5 P( d1 N! s5 e! W# e, I
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
! s+ k( q8 j* W1 a$ _fotograf 20% shorter.
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, J+ I9 P& g% d, l- {6 wIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
7 x& ^, C9 S/ E, P4 |reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always+ p( T9 i6 m) G& f
ben a deterent to akurate speling./ D* S2 G0 V+ l" e- I5 z E
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is7 M% v3 |3 ~; O2 ^5 ?
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with2 c/ b5 d) c% Y! D
"z" and "w" with "v".
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! [) k; X D& F2 h8 P1 ?3 o6 DDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 K! X; K- P+ O I; Y0 Kafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.( V+ F: J4 y3 R5 y& K
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& S/ I6 }/ |6 o; [; Xunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
) L0 I& }! m5 l2 b) d9 ^) ~Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze* @1 `( m4 i4 z# N
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3 X0 X6 g3 n0 K; T3 Y: n' jIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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