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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".+ `" ]* X% f" {! r/ L3 x
1 O+ y( k3 H' h- T1 V( `4 I: w2 J3 kIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
T9 C: a% H; H6 O* bthe sivil servants jump with joy., H" p2 v9 S3 o" k
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
6 C* E6 i# q4 C g3 n' Wkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the+ J" a' o7 x# G- v2 P! N8 ]; I
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like6 ~# x$ ]4 V& E" Y
fotograf 20% shorter.! X9 Z% x$ d; Y9 |' Z5 D' A
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to1 n7 G: p8 j1 X- _3 _
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.% ~6 G0 {& d# v$ C
) r7 S6 B6 E! o v: _Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; f! }6 x% j/ ~ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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/ R7 _: l: J3 Z6 e5 e3 D7 |1 oAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
" h! Q7 w$ V- Y- J9 R1 g. fdisgrasful and it should go away.
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- {7 y3 e m l+ e) A7 V8 ]By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with8 ]( U- O p: B
"z" and "w" with "v".
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: e1 U9 V. ?3 d# oDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and p4 K: @9 x2 r4 o: L0 h2 g
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
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze& ?7 O) ~5 x1 k
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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