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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! ~3 `3 m$ j: @( E* r, M- q" g
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
6 |& t* L8 u9 k4 s2 D5 |9 ?. s: ethe other possibility.5 V3 b! c# g' ]$ A. b9 n( O
# Y5 Q5 z& {: c1 ^/ DAs 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 Y& ^6 H1 o. y! `4 F y6 l( _4 bIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make6 U$ S- A e6 J4 Q
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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$ g! a0 _' Z0 g) }The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
, B1 c, f0 l7 z6 Ikonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
. X# h- Z& h8 W6 Ttroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like, H1 H! r4 t! R8 k3 m4 c1 q
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to; {0 }4 j( Y, j
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.! \* ?3 O0 O: y: D; A4 p
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
3 q$ E3 h3 r$ S6 h: y2 |3 vben a deterent to akurate speling.- s7 w! X, P/ e, U3 r
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is5 B% ^5 c0 s; B# W, M. i, M2 |
disgrasful and it should go away.! n3 r W" A8 Q2 k& M7 X
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% z3 M& B2 M- a) ~8 x j" k
"z" and "w" with "v".' l, R( P# O1 ^$ x
. |& d8 X/ n I' p2 WDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and) h4 j5 h8 A) ^* o8 z, n) j
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
" U8 I1 @6 p) S5 sunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
+ C& ~) G# W q7 m- y# u0 J1 GUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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