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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".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
# U! r; x; n j6 ~( uthe sivil servants jump with joy.5 c# }8 d4 V1 _% i
3 U, k( Z. t' G+ q. ~/ o% rThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the+ h( {1 u, a# i3 \( C
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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; S9 w" a3 j, ?% Z! YIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
4 @ s, t& x. I1 Ereach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.$ V7 w5 R$ `" w; E1 D
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
0 Z% G- g. I8 O8 r# y: S5 jben a deterent to akurate speling.6 N- n" e) Z% K: m9 G
* q1 j" G& b9 n; A0 bAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is$ e& t( g: A* R6 q& T1 q
disgrasful and it should go away.; a0 m. E* S" \3 j d
. l" A. C# I0 ]8 H1 @- G) x( o! V8 yBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with. w# I& R' W5 n5 {; G Q% _
"z" and "w" with "v".6 F0 p6 q2 ^& J1 d/ H; ^' r$ z
" q9 ^% r; O3 i W. q% CDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and- C) T% b' U3 }. w
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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' {+ \' x3 \" I' Y1 o+ IZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
/ g% @. c4 D! Qunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
- ]0 J A$ l8 E) I( R# OUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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& a+ j3 m. i9 B( J9 SIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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