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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will. R& g/ @0 W; s0 r& u
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was4 u/ u; M$ v! `/ c/ w5 \, E
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English C$ w% a9 V: Y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% K1 p1 @0 S3 A$ b, W( T
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".2 d8 y/ V* r$ k* {9 }
" F7 g& p% J/ _: \. k& a, ]In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
' l; f9 B& ?# L) R5 B; Ethe sivil servants jump with joy.; U5 c" }4 {6 h$ t3 j& S$ Y
# t b0 o& F4 z1 R: j- u& [' SThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
+ S8 K2 F( r, ~: c" D" Dkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., q* ^! F V' v) E) z8 @7 ?
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& D9 ?7 K( O4 l
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 W' w8 f3 u) w' d; [: h2 |fotograf 20% shorter.% ?3 `* B+ a3 B/ c8 W
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. `$ i, B% p6 J8 D, K- T
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
9 b# e3 [, U+ X1 Oben a deterent to akurate speling.
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1 M y# \" k" t$ |1 _- V- NAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
- ?% a; @& I+ O2 u6 `disgrasful and it should go away.
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* l& W( k$ m1 W- q2 Q: _% t3 w- r) G# HBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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( h& |+ {; U/ g( mDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and& e+ V- l& }$ \' m( }
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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( R0 h' K( f. Q/ w1 `1 `4 pZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
! a; n: b% p. f# {/ X' j K6 munderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.& r4 p- l6 _0 b) k
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze) g# w" `; [" ]0 j
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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