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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will9 U8 i$ w; ~+ E& k
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was) Y3 m/ M: E9 `/ t, A _! ~9 }/ L
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 make9 @9 N2 d9 G5 V4 w- }
the sivil servants jump with joy. ^/ L$ k3 `( y. c
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; g* ^" _. Y; S6 s F
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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5 b. e9 f* Y7 fThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the* L4 B+ s+ I Y1 x* m) N
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 to0 }% i$ j3 W4 k! [+ a
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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# G9 H7 u$ p9 W+ VGovernments 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
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3 [. e# B8 N @, \& R: g, }By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and2 c2 B' H) f7 K0 d/ v$ N: _
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 tu0 n- _. s% m( \+ h& E5 e! V7 b
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.! n% ^$ U) N) I
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze1 }" t/ S3 X: g \- \' `
forst plas.
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+ p$ [# p! o4 YIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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