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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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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"." N4 \" [8 N' a# T
! [0 S: Q2 ^1 L3 ]In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make: }, r1 t4 z5 p U) e3 {
the sivil servants jump with joy.9 o& I# n2 H6 ?2 Q0 v1 y' ]
. Y _, W" }3 C! Q. k n8 w7 t3 hThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
/ F) z+ f* v& \1 C A+ akonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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5 U- K" T. r+ G$ J9 gThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the3 E3 }! |8 {) D2 r: v- C
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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4 ?( d# S7 j8 W8 B$ mIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
. |; G1 @5 S4 P: K4 a$ d8 O4 I* T: Preach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# k( Z0 f* l2 E4 o. q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.' B2 ]# Z/ u7 x3 l' N
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 C6 c( Q5 X8 H( ? `$ E8 M
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/ w4 F4 } u9 n5 X3 G" p1 S
"z" and "w" with "v".
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) n- J! {6 d3 s; LDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and% ^7 o+ g9 K' ~9 _
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; I, D1 @3 j# Z Y( c; f! k, \# Z0 j$ f
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
, w! s3 L( c3 V2 runderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
( k$ ^5 `5 m% I' O8 ]9 b. R {Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 ^& S7 d, x) `) B5 v9 ]
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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