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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
7 c: V6 n% S1 o5 W4 n- fbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was+ F+ u2 F0 g# e3 G- u6 |' u* Y1 A& l+ r
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
& ~2 B# ~2 `; b9 M' tspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
. i S0 i# x! }# g0 @9 I: J5 tplan 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
: F7 r5 \$ O/ C' Gkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. J8 F" \0 x8 E8 L. q8 s* T
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# Q; F+ t% \: l# ]% ]/ RThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
9 ?8 p& t1 k) _ Dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like% P. z8 m6 `+ @
fotograf 20% shorter.4 ?/ R% C! Z9 r: j- R
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
1 e: z! S1 O7 vreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.% f( b! l! T! k2 V: x, @
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always. D6 t$ T8 d9 z
ben a deterent to akurate speling.2 I& q5 e+ ?) Q7 c% e/ q( l3 X6 [. [
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is* a. I# ]/ Z6 N% s
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% [- i& _, r& p5 K2 r" f
"z" and "w" with "v".; _" W, C7 P1 t, V
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
+ S0 M0 B+ r0 W" @& m/ y. ], bafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.& b' u' D/ N( l0 N
6 G" T5 F0 L0 {7 zZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
7 X' _8 H. A) O. ^understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.1 M& K6 ?% k0 z' Z
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze( C2 m: w" M. O2 q+ G9 J" Q) W, h0 Y
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0 ]* g+ v+ k2 D+ z4 P6 x1 L& `If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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