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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 K! x" M3 h+ r; {
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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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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4 G2 x% h4 `) ~# p; AIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make' n3 m* @# G7 M' m7 {3 e; {
the sivil servants jump with joy.1 D0 F1 e y6 Z
% N' ~. m9 V/ M6 P; v- W* H$ K! gThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
, O' Q) \. I+ M( Qkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the- c" x& F3 O% f+ ~
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 to F# ~9 E2 S3 N! v& W
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.7 o( y a) F: l) F
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Governments 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" with4 K) p5 H) J! R& X! J$ Q
"z" and "w" with "v".
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* r9 g6 ~' m# A8 m' zDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
$ E5 V9 f/ S5 g4 pafter 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 tu
{; R) x/ z0 b9 k* @7 munderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.2 p& T) k, [5 x- v; ^
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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