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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
8 ~( F0 ~% O0 W4 h! c3 R% {be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was, h; l$ H3 q- r9 [! o+ }' J7 Q* U v
the other possibility.
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( W" p) ^2 I7 l/ n, f0 D/ uAs 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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+ \2 K. m T' D1 M5 ], v m& }In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
$ e" B, e0 `* m0 Uthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up) w" n7 e2 M G" D5 G5 q; U
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.1 q/ K2 ~6 }0 c6 \ V
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# }: X; B, J- Q5 tThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
9 W8 W! i4 @ D8 A7 Otroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like7 K' _* l. x9 W' v$ F/ l$ X5 ]
fotograf 20% shorter.
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' m: s8 w' B: C% C) B! nIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
6 k+ ~3 n1 q# yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 q) H0 V/ |5 I0 \+ T* j( ^3 ]0 n
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
0 j/ h! D8 [8 q3 C# T7 p1 r$ Eben a deterent to akurate speling.; B* h. @* Z: g& {6 V
' [# e9 Q, s: K% s* j, YAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
- ?1 I9 O; x; Q5 R# p* Pdisgrasful and it should go away.
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$ d7 e) u- A- L2 h, {7 d" wBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
$ i' R' S0 b; V0 |"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and9 a3 M4 V8 k' N1 s) d. b9 h
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; i3 O9 r. ~' |7 ^
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.* U- i4 r2 K4 m, ]
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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