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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
. r+ h) n$ s0 v7 K( Q* }+ Mbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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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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% A v) `& W: o4 LIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make7 G2 y' W. y% a/ G" C) _
the sivil servants jump with joy.) j# G: S% N) E4 f8 u; v3 m) A
4 E o$ B. q7 w) E% O3 oThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up& \; f/ P$ } X. l1 n( T
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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* s: _* |' ]# H [: O& sThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the2 n6 l/ h+ Z5 D9 V5 ?. F/ \$ F) D
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 c2 F+ K' ~' |2 H, Wfotograf 20% shorter.9 C& ]3 x7 n1 `; v' w, M; }
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
! N% B( C# o2 W4 Y2 ]reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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3 N- k$ `- c& Z! SGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
2 t7 s, v4 j8 G" q8 bben 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$ J$ }2 K3 i# v
disgrasful and it should go away.# m( q. o* X7 _" z9 N3 I
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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3 I [$ F# _7 W( fDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and3 @% s# c! \ D" T1 A6 T6 B, T; X
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. P) d) A1 A6 {7 S M6 H0 ^4 `
" X& a$ x0 G. KZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu. s) \! Z8 |; D* W; B
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ T$ O N' r1 n8 ] ~- ^1 @Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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, U* F y5 s( o' K+ z/ pIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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