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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will% f5 ?. k" P1 L
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was0 H) u" V V- y' @5 |
the other possibility.
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& j# l: D/ x+ i6 u- {3 u" L$ ]As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
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plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".5 Z S6 O$ A3 Q7 z3 T
' r5 P: M0 I! {; {In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 y7 c% x: b( r1 y; F# J" D9 w! P/ z# M
the sivil servants jump with joy.9 M! _; K" B! l# t6 e. ]0 i7 W
8 a& b/ |' {# B+ Y6 RThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
; a" J5 j# w/ ? ?; B1 Bkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.5 l4 A+ i4 V) w* l3 h( L" ]
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$ W5 w2 s( b* D9 {* sThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, J. U* e2 I" n; P. W5 Qtroublesome "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
/ j. r% m+ g" R( h# p/ Sreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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0 @8 e5 @( m' R* D1 K: NGovernments 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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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"and
3 n/ J! s; u# `$ L& ^" qafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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4 ^( P% X" K3 p9 ], s2 \1 H' ?Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu( r4 u* g* G5 v f e- w6 w5 a
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 W& @, U3 v" M) J Z; x) x. O+ C4 vUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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) y# s$ H6 F" d5 J; l1 a0 LIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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