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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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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make% ^) d% l8 V5 s6 }
the sivil servants jump with joy.2 h8 X* {9 h' ~) s; o
: Z8 A! D3 I/ TThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
0 ?5 W! l9 u0 d. U( ^. s0 v/ Qkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.- R6 q3 c* s# Y( m+ F
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the' P \7 y& a% q _
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
4 f0 y: |/ C7 B6 C! ureach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- K1 M: J5 L+ L2 l }
! T: n9 L, g- e/ p0 eGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
Z7 M4 Q/ z5 j- M4 q/ R( sdisgrasful and it should go away.
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* Q0 Z8 a! {! G+ IBy 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! h) X( [, `. x' D' z
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.8 ?5 W5 ?* O7 E
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu3 `, [* \$ q$ b8 ^6 @5 |3 O& i5 Y+ q
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ g" w, Q/ c/ X6 } J$ z
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 o, ^5 A- b! L m! ]/ b! i: `' x
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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