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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
, z6 M# W7 D2 Z6 f5 P: [be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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6 p, S6 w$ `7 N9 @7 S1 FAs 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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3 K) I+ e( ?9 KIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make% v! E3 u% q2 T& S a
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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" N$ b8 F& p* a' q1 E3 UThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up" d1 m3 }) a) ~3 `6 o* |' y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ H# S+ ` X3 p- @) ztroublesome "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 to9 T2 P# V( q& p1 P3 F
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.6 V9 }+ q# [# P4 F2 _8 k3 Y' @7 C
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: U3 d) L, @9 w
ben a deterent to akurate speling.8 I4 y3 m7 J3 p" y1 u$ N5 Y
( n2 p7 i& \+ N; ?: I4 ]# j; EAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
# ~& q8 h8 l( O; b9 m3 q" D% N, ?disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 `" k4 x: b0 Y) X _, _6 F
"z" and "w" with "v"." a1 d* K- V! n7 T1 C9 d
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. R; [- _4 l0 m# safter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.. [6 @4 B# G H; d* j
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& B1 W/ n1 o7 p3 R/ s1 runderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
* o- B, r3 g6 {- n+ xUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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% ?6 Q, \3 C; l5 fIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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