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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 C! e4 O! N! k
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was& t' ?$ `, }3 o t
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
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& I$ t7 j8 ]% Q4 M9 k& `. Lplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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- _" U1 d- _6 r% TIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
6 Z2 d: D0 A2 s, ]% Tthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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0 d3 u' A9 j. x( \0 J6 P5 }The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
6 Q E' F) z8 H1 D$ G& fkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.$ S' k/ F" e% ]2 u* t
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: D9 j" b' }" J: W* q3 V# B- X
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
) l8 j: v* y, g4 u, |1 n% xfotograf 20% shorter.
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; ^0 c$ k( N0 Y' V+ |2 c4 S4 dIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
& P- e- l; X8 s( y/ D @2 ~reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
2 W4 `. d" ^+ y7 r! a1 v, Wben a deterent to akurate speling.9 x/ L/ y9 w- s, a( N U( }
4 Q5 ?' C+ K# A2 e3 U- n% E9 iAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
. ^! z; T+ ]0 [6 \/ Ddisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! L4 n) o+ {/ k3 O' @
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* S% W. X s: X, u p% `3 lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) T. E9 n. ]8 V' o
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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6 v- c) S4 C0 PIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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