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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will( I' g7 ^. d* q5 W1 R
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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( G/ U9 _$ D) N' S4 IAs 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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4 q9 |1 O% i6 k4 x; T# j( qIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make/ {$ D" _) s( ]- J4 v" O
the sivil servants jump with joy.( m) D4 Y: o0 d9 l* M6 [
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
4 a. L3 L2 h1 H1 E1 Q; Fkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., D% A, o$ c" w3 r" O
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* i; m d! C: `: ~7 s; q dThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the( m- Y" J/ D2 Q! d/ W0 Y/ }
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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5 T" d# C Q) ]In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to0 s( U, U4 q% E5 n
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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& F" ~$ |4 d2 {* F$ O1 y8 e# `* yGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! y; v7 s @; N2 k3 e7 u! h' [
ben a deterent to akurate speling.1 t. @5 e8 J( _8 N
) p8 X3 S q' i- m# i: ~+ F2 jAlso, 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
, l; E2 p. Q8 k! ]after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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+ b2 N) s1 k& Y/ m& ^Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu, | x4 s, T" a2 E0 h
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; ^- X2 _7 s: s! F/ F) fUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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4 z: j& l- B3 ~) U$ K' M* EIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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