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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will+ _" o$ l% ~( S: o* c7 I6 J
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was2 ], G1 ^* w6 @7 }7 M( l' v( {- }
the other possibility.2 x; m. p9 p' y+ M
M) M, f: J, g' R& ^( ?As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
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plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".1 c# y9 L* j6 @! x# l
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make7 S ^: [6 Y: i/ f7 k6 J) i7 j
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
8 G1 B* R" W/ S( ?+ O3 wkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ b( H- F5 t: L+ D9 f6 A N- s! S
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! r) x2 g: e- V- C9 _0 ]9 RThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, P! {3 O& \4 G9 C9 z5 W, Z0 d8 htroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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9 s5 p2 \: T0 g9 O; \/ x3 CIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' [8 ]! D- g% a) Q7 _reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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- _8 i( \' I; `, ?Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
1 z" I: k7 Y8 `! Adisgrasful and it should go away.
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; L" W3 J2 Y& ^/ v) BBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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9 X8 i2 G5 p, y/ DDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and) q" i. t, f/ |2 R
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.7 D" s" A3 i0 |- _% w
" o/ a8 `5 \- `- j8 a( {2 f- n3 @6 TZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu" w+ d4 X2 Y: ^3 o+ l' Y5 N/ { p
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.7 |6 `% O# x1 r8 |
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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