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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will; S3 R* P5 [& c1 h# m1 E4 @
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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8 g# [( D |6 H, ?4 Z+ P% RAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English: m3 J5 _2 t! y( q8 e% h
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
" s4 I% z% j2 X, w8 l1 F& Lplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".! V' `0 U+ T4 T& t J6 M3 ]
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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- a9 x$ E( ]* x( R: e: uThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up- \. b) [/ o, r! [$ R: N' F
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.% e) t3 q8 ~) u7 Q
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; P& [+ h5 V7 o- }. V$ c! b6 ZThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the$ L9 H- k3 L3 I9 C
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
7 i+ J7 x2 d$ R* Y! gfotograf 20% shorter.
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: Q* P8 W. n, Q \In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
8 ^4 V/ p4 c3 ^- c- l' \reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.4 |0 W3 U- p, z, W
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- ?8 Z" T7 H, C# E2 ~2 V: j Z
ben a deterent to akurate speling.& u; j0 S! L( ~6 S& p8 }
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is/ v5 Y) B9 m" v; u; Y& y) E
disgrasful and it should go away.3 R; R3 a) ^1 z7 `: }7 b- O- ~: W, P
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ ]+ o8 C1 X. O+ P+ L5 U7 B
"z" and "w" with "v".
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) x5 W( H% B- s2 H# b1 a9 NDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
d3 n% D/ Y$ D8 _after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.! r% V: i, n% K4 y
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu( i' K, _/ b8 z4 @
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.1 G6 `1 y& k, y4 R
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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1 F/ i1 w8 m3 ~ tIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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