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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
6 ]( k" J9 G1 E1 t; vbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
( @3 S# X8 b* }0 H. d- `- Z/ a8 bthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English5 E4 d! @1 f7 E4 D# t4 J% l
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% X2 F' \) E. M. R# c9 H$ `
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".' [) H4 N" o3 W- r' |! |: }. u
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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
2 A- N% c0 k% T5 Zkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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' c7 c |3 x0 ]; q. p( TThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
7 f) V# B0 C) ztroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
) f! c! t0 A7 X$ C6 z! I5 `fotograf 20% shorter.6 t6 v& F- I0 r$ ?, c' M$ y
0 i ~1 a' {1 k( F0 {In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
% V$ l' z" @5 h1 I7 B Kreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always1 p, E I2 S( d8 Y) r. w2 x
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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1 @# ~& L/ L9 s. ZAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is6 B* ^# S; ~1 U% I! P; B# A- |1 k
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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( ]) ~+ p; N# w* ?' bDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and5 r; K/ \3 l' V5 u& l! v V
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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. v6 S' t* i' K" _% u" CZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
) e8 m2 G T! D6 U5 k- d7 ~6 tunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 u4 A4 ]6 x# }, [4 `Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
4 \# o8 g( a0 d/ A8 Zforst plas.
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0 n" C3 M: c, H" HIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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