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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will4 _; o+ _0 W2 f3 Q8 J3 B
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was/ ]; A& | E5 r: K1 O a
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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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7 z, L% D+ K! [% mIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
; p9 |+ n( ^4 ]6 mthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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3 ^8 M `5 ^- o9 f' sThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
# g$ B5 n* W/ Dkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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5 k( |& f2 n( [+ rThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the' i8 A. A, g9 u9 l5 q/ U! E8 p& y
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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$ r; J* a. h8 @1 d3 p: k1 ~In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to6 g8 T. A& J9 k; G! {
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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B2 f) ]9 Q9 H8 Y% h5 Z6 w' bGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always5 `6 P! h5 X1 }2 ?
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
( B% S9 q) G6 Y8 Ldisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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# P1 W+ G. P6 DDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
/ h# \$ L# t, s, Y( `3 ]after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu B/ W* q5 L1 E. l$ e; v6 I
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
. }! u5 N# R- ~3 P* qUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze3 h( [- @+ t" i' f `& \
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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