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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". k. s8 @( D. \/ g: Z" S6 p
/ p* a% i% y/ bIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make% A( x& i( }$ V. ?1 s1 g" x
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% `8 I. w& O4 q5 S
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the! V5 j/ `( n) l, p
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like. I; N& j& k5 k) o1 F0 }8 X! {
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to, I; e t1 @ p* X4 Y
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
' d! P/ i3 k7 |ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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; J( F8 W4 z; mAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is7 D9 [5 E7 m' @
disgrasful and it should go away.* S( b+ t; K! t: g) c
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By 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"and1 C& _; T1 s1 Z$ }/ T
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.! I9 l2 K. T% p
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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
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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