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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
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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3 U( P5 `2 C! {5 k3 ~There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the+ T( H7 p8 m% t1 v
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; J+ A5 g j8 ], d' |
fotograf 20% shorter.
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6 x+ U* j/ M- ~' a$ sIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
% X& o1 N7 j H& X* G- t3 Qreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always/ H1 r. R T. c" Y8 W0 ~7 }
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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" X8 r" F' e) s+ `, N2 HAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
/ p" G* |$ E# g5 bdisgrasful and it should go away.
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4 w, P; X) |) FBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 ]! f/ D1 P3 j D) T; T0 ]& L
"z" and "w" with "v".6 g" K6 L- ~" [/ ]
5 {" V4 H) G# ~$ m) f5 c0 p! `, {% RDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
/ m0 p0 q( a1 q; h; F1 d; v. nafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.% |1 {, }* i! \8 K7 X* }5 P+ p
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
5 _ R- F/ Y% i! ?+ r9 b, Sunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% B0 \/ W" d) G5 M/ z
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze" Q% z; v& E4 Z) k8 F
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5 ~( P2 d6 ~$ o+ `' Y- |+ k1 VIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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