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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will5 p6 k {) K0 m( U% U1 p# H! o) C
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was$ Z, b3 q1 e- D6 m) }9 s4 Q
the other possibility.
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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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* c( l' S, X! SIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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! ~: v, X' e$ [: qThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ {% Y7 l( f; L5 T8 Y ?' a2 lkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.1 m( d8 ~- V* C+ M3 H
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
' d M0 `8 c# L I: G6 Atroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like7 \4 {$ t; B* z6 _
fotograf 20% shorter.% e6 _6 R9 v" q# w/ L: K- \
; t! u4 {) g8 N/ F* o4 k, V3 g* VIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to% L$ d( a5 p4 O) A* B [# L6 o
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.. r0 Q2 I' p4 [4 v$ l' S
. D8 ?' s5 ~7 ~* T/ nGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 D, {! j; ~* }) D) a2 D3 ?7 ?
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: X n; w9 L. ~$ d+ V$ O
disgrasful and it should go away.5 B7 u2 n. ?) ^6 s" |! x6 W& ^
! q" O7 b' G2 P KBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( e; R) v( s; k( N4 r7 p9 \# [
"z" and "w" with "v".
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2 d3 L5 {; m, t u/ T1 b6 c7 o, L& sDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and7 l: v# N& z* ], i" E6 R2 Z
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
' W- c( D2 a% R! a# _+ Qunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.1 w+ h2 y/ W3 B4 A, B k
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze' e( u' D* u, V% e( v% @5 G" y
forst plas.
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. P5 |1 P7 G7 L- Q7 t+ z, ^) lIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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