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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will& m5 A' Q; d% l, Y7 Y# S+ @
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
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plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 p& h. P7 k- M1 k! P5 L
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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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 the0 t6 J! e9 G, e
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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2 L2 G3 b* P! n* U$ y; }In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
. ^1 i+ L' I( g. {) F8 Breach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.& E7 Z* h( B2 E8 i, ~/ o! A- K4 ]$ R
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is* Q0 e& N, b7 b$ ?. B6 P* Q% C
disgrasful and it should go away.
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' F% l+ C$ a3 \/ mBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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- f" E- X Q( p* `) ~During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, |6 {+ ?* Z" ]( }6 @7 C5 Xafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.& j8 h8 W: S2 f
9 K, y7 i e" \2 o) tZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu% w( O/ G9 ?: I( v6 H5 ~
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
$ J& ]8 A0 D( \) ]4 ^+ fUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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3 Y7 }% \2 T1 L6 a8 c* Y6 @If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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