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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
2 T6 m/ u3 f8 ^$ i% h. _be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was) H5 B7 K+ j; a9 |# ]0 S6 W
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9 ^& C0 |5 |5 n/ ^7 ^" y* RAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. K5 ~, q+ p! l9 Z6 C
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 s" E2 I/ c9 k/ j
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".* k" v3 g3 F2 A
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make$ p) a1 W( ]7 V8 _: X' E
the sivil servants jump with joy.. ^1 J* J* R$ ?
( r: H. v, X: H1 @The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
" \$ B8 m3 L' Skonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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6 o y, S, O; g. g7 CThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: s, Z' Y5 s# |: l. [9 O
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
. j' L+ Z" ]3 ~9 Ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always) h4 b& i: W7 B5 h$ V
ben a deterent to akurate speling.0 w9 a: P, f3 Q% B0 X5 V
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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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
6 z1 ]0 ?6 ~8 R+ ?: Z. x/ a: P3 {after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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( E# w; q/ p- j2 j W: f% SZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu) }1 L" K4 g h2 Y. U- p
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.5 K. b8 }0 Q; H* z5 v v
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze I( }. x* i1 w- D+ Q! c) q! c
forst plas.3 r" ^1 k" y( l4 e8 t1 A9 c
1 { Z# A0 s2 G- w9 G8 ~0 RIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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