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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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the other possibility.
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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 make
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$ S4 Z& ~, ^; u( X, l8 fThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up1 D, U' f% D/ q% X
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.1 ^! z5 @) J, m4 s. }/ C6 N
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: @/ ]. j6 V, ?$ \There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
4 G' n! u q! V, r2 h) ~troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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& z/ | m* q6 W/ |9 AIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to3 J# ~9 m" {0 R
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: R% N |4 D6 I$ Y
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is1 o0 E) @3 |6 h E
disgrasful and it should go away.
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) }; j7 H( W1 M* }7 B6 ~, l# d" MBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with T, e5 U4 `! w4 c2 V
"z" and "w" with "v".+ `; b8 a5 _2 v0 M6 U) ^
7 O4 N* L; y8 R$ k) l: i4 rDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
" x9 m5 X, v) B6 l9 N$ Q/ M; ^after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) ^& O4 P7 @$ |) t
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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 L1 v& Q9 z& l& u8 l
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5 }3 g' N2 ~) @1 j# I/ h! m; MIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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