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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".9 B# O/ }& C# I, Q" d F
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up, t, |2 I( U; g9 F! s
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* R( p [" y: `0 }
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" l8 }1 b0 @3 [& RThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the6 \* S O- H9 m9 O( @- o8 y
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 to3 k8 r9 ~: e8 y- b$ C' Z' D2 n+ U
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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5 a- s: Z+ y# ^5 Z V; zGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always3 g$ q& \% e1 m% o, F/ g
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 is
" h; J d" R$ V, T2 x( edisgrasful and it should go away.
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. w, H' P7 z6 D7 J5 j& R, q' y# l/ jBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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$ v( O! g( L9 f, ]' JDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and2 e% K8 N7 s$ V3 {7 E2 @5 r
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.0 V8 Z! Z; r, ~, `$ [+ S8 w0 n8 f
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. v+ J8 n& V. u V A. u; y ^! [! Sunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
) H- ]& b, C" [6 t/ ?8 t1 @1 ]/ aUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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6 n* a7 c$ c$ ~ c7 P- { _: fIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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