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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! O$ m/ O4 x1 G/ T
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".$ G k& R- k8 e. r' r v' ~
" c; N: D8 p; K0 o; z* \0 CIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make& l! H. e- }/ k* }; v
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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- g1 w3 [4 K4 [The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up# y2 }) I' T9 t
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the9 r; N4 w3 O' f+ f) B y. {
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 T: W7 j' u$ W d, n; ^reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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! _4 [$ `! l/ j4 I7 `" J5 LGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
6 K7 n, D1 e" Lben a deterent to akurate speling.# ]. W+ H a) x7 {" E9 q( q
3 m9 Q+ g4 `+ \' z% XAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
3 H! t$ G2 U! Jdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with0 \" X8 N1 _$ L( K2 M
"z" and "w" with "v".
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+ o$ p9 v' |$ ^; C; }1 q4 v8 b$ SDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and; R2 p, Q. R9 `
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 tu9 e/ g/ @' x' M$ y6 T; N; y5 E
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.8 S1 r9 c, f) Z. m) F9 L7 i
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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