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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will+ ~- ?% D) {- @6 _ _
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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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make4 K/ `( h. i0 j6 G- C
the sivil servants jump with joy.: O$ H7 t7 Z) X
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: @, m2 x5 A$ z% H' b# Z
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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: e# S4 g6 V3 ]8 QThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# q. N! s/ U: A1 h% q3 ^% v
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
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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disgrasful and it should go away.: D2 `7 a+ P& Z( f
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: _4 @' Q% u; B9 @
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
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forst plas.
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