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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will( Z+ L4 A m/ g+ k, t: [
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was% I( p8 b) Y$ l6 E2 E
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
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2 I, f# I6 G2 F( j _/ y3 Z' Wplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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( r" T' O0 \' D2 e3 VThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up' ]2 n: c6 @' L5 B+ y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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" G) u& ?( t2 i( I5 |There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the9 h# l) O3 w3 \8 S- u0 d
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like3 o+ e# g% k' n. [* T- Q! [' d
fotograf 20% shorter.! E* E' f. ]0 O1 I
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to+ Q. E- W6 k0 G& m: s9 {# J5 j! a
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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) V" d; L7 `3 z1 M) `* zGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 Z2 {/ e/ m, Q0 D
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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3 Y, R; E3 W' p6 r6 vAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is# `( @, h7 ]' l9 a a: ^+ m8 E
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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6 p4 \' k" y) F. K- e3 |( w D: GDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and$ Z! H+ X: I7 Z w; a5 L9 _
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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* u& O- O/ z! X4 R& ]8 _Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu5 Q+ u$ K3 w- j, C
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ ^2 g2 l% \3 h3 D, k% v$ ~3 ^4 BUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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