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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ r- \/ |' z+ Z2 Z9 @; y0 l1 f1 ^
be 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".& L. \5 r* c2 [9 G
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 _/ P% X# c! N* ^9 x% z& L
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up. {* |! q$ S1 d) N
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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1 c& s3 G* [ d2 c# z, ~# yThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
2 P( U9 b8 W/ I0 ftroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
/ z* D! U* t& D7 o& H s1 w* ^# ?fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
$ F" H( p! U) |' vreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
) s K$ |9 h3 Z* D2 S. U. W4 ^disgrasful and it should go away.
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, n' p9 c3 V$ aBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 B4 K: L/ _1 S1 s1 {. ~
"z" and "w" with "v".
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+ g" F, E+ w" g$ L: ~During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and0 K9 @; L; W' G( J# c' [ Y r
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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: H4 Y5 k) W1 uZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" r; B2 f' s7 tunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.+ a/ r2 t, K" W8 N0 g( }5 K! y$ x0 r: o
Und 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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