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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ `4 R3 f& j/ o+ m# n' H, K8 j
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" {+ I+ l/ z; z" x. g5 U* i
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
8 L/ n4 Y: C. wplan 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 up
8 T- G* _ P$ pkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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* C- c4 H, X w* T$ dThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 f* X9 L H/ n9 C s) e% s5 ?7 D9 }
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
I( ]9 w* ^% y+ y0 G$ w5 Yfotograf 20% shorter.' G. R8 E5 m9 g5 I0 Z
, q2 ^7 p9 @0 n/ ?: S" BIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to' I; ?- O9 v8 d' ?* i
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.; h, z1 x% B5 o( e9 w) s
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% U# E0 M% P% j( b( `
ben a deterent to akurate speling.) `7 X: w! x( e6 D& A6 b) n
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is: C$ c! J W# |( @& Q) C7 ?
disgrasful and it should go away.8 f/ a, b+ w. N* ]
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with; A6 H# T7 Z$ b/ O! s" Q
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and/ T5 `9 ?- J9 I, k8 v
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+ v( m! ]5 ?: R8 W
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
! P& v4 L1 Y) V+ H. n0 T$ A& uUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze$ w4 ]- j4 u# b: ]8 J# e6 ~. j
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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