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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will+ M4 \( E% b |% R% M
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was* a# c5 @+ e5 J, r: m0 B) D2 H; w5 M
the other possibility.
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$ c' Z6 z& K' {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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. i% _& Y2 j" {( \' t6 i: \/ aIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
w" H3 A4 m! P+ ~; ~! m2 Fthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ K4 O# z0 q1 I# a* b; c8 n
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.4 c/ b$ z) j7 x$ l
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
- ^8 ^7 @6 T, U" r3 Itroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like1 Q) a/ a; L/ n3 m6 f. S$ C. K) x
fotograf 20% shorter.% | `8 D$ p f' q) p
- e5 T1 d1 H1 z( @In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to+ [" C: x: S2 K+ \# p
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always' Z( T) F7 G- |7 ^
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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2 C% [ u- G9 u, h) j( O7 ^7 RAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
" i+ @. K$ o( I% ~ fdisgrasful and it should go away.
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1 A8 ?* H; c4 I5 z- mBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with8 ~$ J- b9 J& [, `6 b) \
"z" and "w" with "v".0 T0 l1 g! P6 z# _
/ R: N' |, I% H* }! K1 ?( ^/ ^During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
& t; `8 L/ `# [$ S& l/ p3 i% dafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; A' N9 W' u2 }# J- x" N0 u4 G/ F
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze, i7 |' X: C6 J0 T7 g% C1 L$ Z1 L, G
forst plas.
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; n- y, B7 A/ b) EIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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