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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' X# i/ C6 X# L8 g- @
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was- J+ Y* S5 k6 C- {
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
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6 o* r9 r$ q, H1 }7 |plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".+ k9 `7 t; n y+ ]- X/ b4 C% z
) T+ h+ c0 U, T# }In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 N/ c l; O8 S G
the sivil servants jump with joy., F5 `: r; m. A1 Y( `; R
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ ~+ R* r# }- L9 x4 G1 s4 b
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 V- Z% ^+ |3 C& j' s# j
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like9 f6 t5 t3 z) X- _0 d$ Z
fotograf 20% shorter., X9 `( s0 Y/ H* \& P
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to0 F7 \6 w* P! s* I) b% q
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always; A( W6 G$ I% r% i: x# N
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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) e P" Z' G: l# lAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is5 k; f1 ~9 @# R' B
disgrasful and it should go away.
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4 m& K9 A- k( Q3 y) b) GBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with& K0 B. H7 J+ Q) h X0 G" l
"z" and "w" with "v".! E) y' j: D6 u* G( g3 z5 [$ Y
2 }% F ?$ D/ C; `+ ?; TDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and; V- g7 J1 @6 P* l3 c5 e" A* j$ d
after 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
7 ^$ s( r. G$ M4 }# N7 y0 y4 e: Gunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
2 J" S, r% ?/ v" r( yUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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* x0 C& B$ a. k# \% @, rIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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