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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ H7 R. s: u) u3 m* p& Z
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was5 k; e7 C- F9 _( l' P( @
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English9 A; e9 a& X# H8 w) U4 ^) l1 z$ q
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in) {% W; i* R# k! w
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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( E4 G5 M) R8 r) X4 }6 S% MIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make) x! \' a6 d6 a# n( C, B6 z
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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7 R* `+ d4 I+ M. \/ ^There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: K$ R- N0 x, R4 E% v3 q. m' Ztroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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$ N r2 R! [0 R1 U4 t6 T! aIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
# R5 ]) ]; X+ n7 n, ` rreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
V7 }; W1 M+ G7 I7 cben a deterent to akurate speling. w: \ z+ f$ R
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is& k. T' I4 T9 X" V
disgrasful and it should go away.& q9 \7 K# C- P P$ l9 y5 @$ K( e
* R( }/ }) [0 Q" c/ \By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with1 Z( H+ ^4 M, s1 j) @
"z" and "w" with "v".
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! [# ]/ Z+ ]2 @8 Z6 N2 T1 J9 SDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
3 ]; y. s( s8 o& {5 P2 v( dafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) _, B3 n4 ?' _: u1 P) {% x$ G) H( m) W
( w( {) x- `7 m: D2 Z) ^. D8 d8 ZZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
# k5 g% J2 T9 Tunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
) R7 T% k) [& f4 ]3 e% iUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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# m, x' H- v# x, ^0 m% q. cIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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