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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
1 L: w! G5 x7 B2 |* bbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# I, a6 ^; l- L4 @. C+ R3 x
the other possibility.
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5 r A$ A9 |" p$ zAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English: l$ t7 {( h: J! Z) k3 A4 x
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
5 v1 D4 T! Q, p# l, c7 tplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".1 \/ C: [. t% [# q; p& `* G6 d
8 g' U8 Z* ~/ w0 lIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
7 o9 l: j. R9 Tthe sivil servants jump with joy.& M# r. c: Y0 S! X9 l h& q$ R2 r7 f
+ _0 M w% D* k8 O0 h, }4 n/ w1 JThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
q8 N0 Z& @! B1 s( C% N% P1 X" E# s- l- nkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter." Y3 t. H* G z0 e
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the' ?* Q# e7 @: m+ {, \
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
+ c: p7 Y4 W- wreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible./ e3 J- `9 j! ~8 I0 D) _
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& A4 ^+ n* i- R5 O8 L5 N4 C f
ben a deterent to akurate speling.& A* {8 E7 ]0 Y* ~' c
" p/ r, I/ G. `: ~( nAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is% ^8 d- P1 n# j/ {3 H6 z0 I+ {
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
/ T- K. C; b7 C4 a u8 i) v! Bafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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/ I" c5 \% n0 h& D0 DZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
1 E) T# _# Y2 c8 H- @7 O6 kunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.: H" T2 `2 @# ^. a$ @7 m* E$ m
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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/ p( ^3 Q& H% o8 G# D) j9 DIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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