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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
; N9 P4 c5 R: o2 ]6 M' y" w% Ebe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
' K+ s. C; _8 v& T$ fthe 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 make+ N" `) c" ^; y
the sivil servants jump with joy.5 R+ y0 h* ~& F
* _- K; d( |8 ^$ n) QThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ {2 B# `! E- g& Qkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.) e h/ z& g2 i+ a% B# ]/ M" s3 v
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the9 K/ R4 B/ W% Q2 X. [
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like) r3 d2 b# k5 q3 h, Q0 q
fotograf 20% shorter.- @ T4 F2 B9 U' ^2 V* x' ]
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
& j8 X0 L1 X, a# O/ x0 {) v8 Preach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* I) b. B }5 \4 [
ben a deterent to akurate speling.% g5 Y5 }* t+ ^* w% t/ O" V
/ a/ J+ p6 z' h3 sAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is# v6 w' L x" e5 _
disgrasful and it should go away.) k; F* I+ }% N1 `
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with2 T3 b* C0 X+ h: t" V! W, Y* y
"z" and "w" with "v"." I8 B8 C9 p5 R6 I" I' a
9 v$ n7 [- w" U0 Y1 h: K, s& iDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
1 R7 [4 Z! O% U5 H n( i1 Jafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.1 X4 i4 a; V3 J, z
( ~# b1 V9 f& x- p4 u! A) BZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu$ B f6 i+ H2 Y2 c) h! V
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 l8 m/ F" Q* z0 yUnd 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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