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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will2 m/ ~8 |) [# @5 M/ d6 p
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
9 ^! Z+ c: u: N8 Gthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
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* R, E# T& s4 X+ mplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".) m0 w7 X( _4 N! G! D
* ?, f' z" l/ Y+ Y* nIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 I- c, R% ]. L! O3 h4 {+ z
the sivil servants jump with joy.1 L, n V3 g9 g7 ~0 p; X# R& |
" x2 Z8 W" q3 g# H( p0 E1 xThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; r3 Q a1 L k
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* Q0 p4 [+ ?; M6 I
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the; _1 W+ \8 F& l
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like7 V% T/ q9 y. @5 K/ U$ W: i
fotograf 20% shorter.- Y; p/ w: O7 H3 X! Y' s. t# `
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to7 [5 G( |/ f9 _4 O5 A
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.9 `; k. m2 K8 `( }3 Q% g* t* X
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always; N0 r2 q4 h3 W
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: i0 |; J; e- [# o1 x" U4 \
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 f B- p) E; o2 m/ I" ~- G
"z" and "w" with "v".+ d2 L6 }( z6 J6 h$ a
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and/ C8 Z9 i( ~- o& o' e) N0 g6 c
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl./ ]2 B6 B, M5 w2 F7 o, c' g
! o# {, C7 u' i. AZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu8 E1 M- t% F& W5 P8 Y$ ?
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
u! K5 M8 v2 E, N4 HUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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, Z) F) I4 V6 J1 S! @If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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