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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will% b/ l/ G2 q# i- a/ W6 e L- W
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# a& I, R4 i9 p y n. O
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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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up2 L% m0 F1 d3 Y$ E; h% d6 r; P# W
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter." q9 V( `" m. W. p5 H' x
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2 k4 x5 c( a7 q7 WThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the" V6 |1 l+ T. K5 h4 k; i
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like' y( D8 u7 S: ~
fotograf 20% shorter.+ C& s' Q* F6 V8 ^
k/ U. X# \# n+ A. h8 `5 ?In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to5 _9 J- o$ v6 k. ?/ X
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.' i+ m( H/ b9 {9 y1 M. A1 U% _
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always1 q# U% ~) _; [* n- \; |
ben a deterent to akurate speling.$ j! |$ P, x- J$ X( L$ h; @9 R
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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6 Z9 ~$ o- p4 }8 lBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( q4 {; C/ k: E8 I8 ?
"z" and "w" with "v".
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( d$ y: X- s3 W1 }. L( ADuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. R) m+ R4 W) V( Z! s4 ^after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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0 A* [. m( e' W( r, N, NZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu( c/ Z& c @2 Y' f; ]1 J/ S2 ]
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
, F( D# k. P0 JUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze( K% e- F) M, @- S; ]' T6 `! D
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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