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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will m2 B3 o3 b% A! G$ m
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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$ B7 `7 v9 B" D, U/ L8 gAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English# ~' j) U0 z* ]7 }+ o
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in5 H* a% t4 U# k
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".. O+ G1 ~) U8 d& x1 g. k
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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
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
: k% M, P9 F0 d8 g& q% B ktroublesome "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
u/ G# r7 L) M2 @' i; K6 creach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
9 w- B' `8 O u7 T3 nben a deterent to akurate speling.
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4 t, n/ z. [! y4 O# @) ZAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is5 }. O f( [6 `0 J; A
disgrasful and it should go away.
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1 h5 V( Q, t; x: ABy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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8 f, D5 c# v' G- e# x! h6 [: p7 \During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, M# p% C) I' V4 w" l. M3 z- G7 g" r& Y- Bafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.- q7 V4 \2 x( i. `# X
" d: s/ U6 |' \/ `4 y4 `Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu% ?$ I# f3 O# N+ w
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.* r' o9 t7 }- t$ ]
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze& l: _/ \2 M+ \& `7 T1 F! n
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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